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Compounding parallel subjects

Sometimes you can have two subjects in parallel. This means that both subjects are doing the same thing, so you can combine them into one compound subject. Take these two sentences for example:

Compounding parallel subjects

Two subjects, one in each sentence - ‘Sally’ and ‘Louise’. But they’re both doing the same thing - they’re both ‘upset’. So we can combine the two subjects into one compound subject using a coordinating conjunction like ‘and’:

Compounding parallel subjects