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Allied with Green
by Naomi Shihab Nye

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Question
Which sentence is a compound sentence?
Responses

Because she likes the color green, Lucy sees plants growing everywhere.
Because she likes the color green, Lucy sees plants growing everywhere.

Lucy likes the color green, and she sees plants growing everywhere.
Lucy likes the color green, and she sees plants growing everywhere.

Lucy likes the color green.
Lucy likes the color green.

She sees plants growing everywhere.
She sees plants growing everywhere.

Answer 1

Lucy likes the color green, and she sees plants growing everywhere.

Explanation: It's a compound sentence because it joins two independent clauses ("Lucy likes the color green" and "she sees plants growing everywhere") with the coordinating conjunction "and."