What is a compound predicate?

[ladychipmunk]

Aussie girl suggested that there may be someone here who can answer the title question. It was mentioned in one of the level two suggestion articles.

[Euryleia]

Every complete sentence contains two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is what (or whom) the sentence is about, while the predicate tells something about the subject.

A compound predicate is a predicate that includes more than one verb pertaining to the same subject.

An example is: Her Mistress and she walked slowly through the play party and admired the many punishments exhibited around the house.

Walked and admired being the verbs.

[ladychipmunk]

Thank you kindly. Grammer class is starting to come back to me now :)

[Playfulsub]

Don't feel bad, ladychipmunk. I have a degree in English lit and my nine year old daughter had to remind me what a compound predicate was the other day. ;-)

[Faibhar]

A "Compound Predicate"! Is that something like ending with a participle???