One sentence can have several subjects or predicates. What punctuation marks should be in such cases? A sentence with homogeneous subjects is the topic of the article.
Rules
In a sentence, as a rule, there are two main members. One of them is the subject. The second is the predicate. But there are also those in which there are two or more subjects. Or several predicates.
Words related to each other by the type of a coordinating connection are called homogeneous members. It is important to know that with several predicates there can be only one subject. With two or more subjects, there is only one predicate. The article will consider in detail a sentence with homogeneous subjects. Examples in which there are several predicates are also worth giving:
- He was brawling and fighting to keep up morale.
- They screamed and called for help and called out to God.
Unions
Sentence with homogeneous subjects can have both allied and non-union conjunctions.
Examples:
- Children, women, the disabled, the elderly stayed invillage.
- And children, and women, and the elderly, and the disabled remained in the village.
- Only children, women, the elderly and the disabled remained in the village.
- Children and women, the elderly and the disabled remained in the village.
The first option is typical for narrative and calm speech. It is a kind of open circle. The second option is an incomplete enumeration. The third sentence with homogeneous subjects includes a closed enumeration. And finally the fourth has several types:
- paired words are close in meaning;
- paired words are lexical units contrasting in meaning;
- paired words-concepts are logically far from each other.
Particles
Sentence with homogeneous members may include prepositions. These service parts of speech perform a connecting function between paired words. But if such words are subjects, then only unions and particles can stand in front of them. For example:
- Not only children, but also skeptical adults froze in front of the TV.
- Not only him, but you can complete this task in time.
Predicate
In the examples given above, it is the nouns that express the homogeneous members of the sentence. Subjects, as you know, can be represented by another part of speech. But in the cases that are considered in this article, these are always nouns. The predicate can be not only a verb. This Membersentences are sometimes expressed by a noun. For example:
- Moscow, Budapest, Kyiv, Minsk - all these are the capitals of countries.
- Both "Amok", and "Impatience of the Heart", and "Letter from a Stranger" are Zweig's works.
- Poems and poems, stories and novels, dramas and comedies are all literary works.
- Red Square, Patriarch's Ponds and Sparrow Hills are sights of the capital.
In sentences with multiple subjects, the predicate is always plural.
Mistakes
The lexical inconsistency of one of the homogeneous subjects with the predicate is the cause of common mistakes. For example:
Comments and suggestions were considered at the meeting (proposals are considered, comments are made).
There are other mistakes. Homogeneous members can interbreed according to generic and specific concepts. For example:
- Cakes, confectionery, wines and fruits are part of the store's assortment (please cross out "cakes" as they are in the confectionery category).
- Alcoholic drinks, tobacco products, and wine will soon disappear from store shelves.
Not rough, but still a mistake is the wrong choice of paired words. Examples of sentences with such homogeneous subjects are given above.
