Compound sentence question

[lvbeingmom]

We are using Rod and Staff 5 and it teaches that, "parts of a compound sentence are joined by a comma and a conjunction" As a matter of fact it drills it into the child with the oral reviews. My question is that on lesson 16 it has you read the sentences and write what type of sentence it is but none of the compound sentences has a comma in them.

Is this a mess up or am I missing something:glare:

Thank you for your help.

Tami

[Hoggirl]

I sell my book at the end of each year, but does it maybe also ask that you include the proper punctuation? Just a thought. Sometimes I miss stuff like that.

[Pam in MA]

A compound sentence with two subjects would not have a comma:

The dog and the cat ate the fish.

A compound sentence with three subjects would have a comma and a conjunction:

The dog, the cat and the cow at the fish.

Clearly a sentence with two subjects (or verbs) doesn't always need a comma, unless there's alot of other stuff in there:

The dog who lived across the street, and the cat from the yellow house. . .

Is that what they meant maybe?

[amyco71]

We recently did this same lesson. In Lesson 16, the directions for both the oral drill and written practice tell you to supply the commas where needed. I think you must have missed that. ;)

Hope this goes through to the correct thread, it's my first time posting here! I read a lot, though.

Amy in Colorado

[lvbeingmom]

:001_huh:. It says to add the missing commas.

So yes, commas are needed:001_smile:

Earl mowed the lawn, and Keith raked the grass.

Thank you very much, now I will go explain to dd.

Tami

[VaKim]

A compound sentence with two subjects would not have a comma:

The dog and the cat ate the fish.

A compound sentence with three subjects would have a comma and a conjunction:

The dog, the cat and the cow at the fish.

Clearly a sentence with two subjects (or verbs) doesn't always need a comma, unless there's alot of other stuff in there:

The dog who lived across the street, and the cat from the yellow house. . .

Is that what they meant maybe?

No, a sentence is only compound if it can be divided into two separate sentences, without adding any words. Sentences can have compound subjects and/or compound verbs.

Compound sentence:
The girl went to school, and her mother stayed home and ate all day.

They also leave out the commas so that the punctuation alone doesn't give away the answers.