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DeannaK September 5, 2019

Question about Compound Statements

I seem to be having difficulty on determining whether a statement should be compound or not. For example in A the explanation had "employed with TRF" and "opportunity" as and/or. Is there anyway to know for sure if the statement is a compound statement or do I have to keep playing it by ear? Can you please provide me some tips on this. Thank you.

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Cambme May 1, 2020

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shunhe May 2, 2020

Q16 Question about Compound…

Hi @DeannaK and @Cambme,

Thanks for the question! Generally speaking, it shouldn’t matter too much which way you diagram a compound statement. But yes, for the most part, the optimal one will have to be played by ear based on each question. If you see that one of the two parts of the compound is used by itself later on, you may want to diagram it as A & B rather than C (where C is A&B). In other words, sometimes you can get away with

greek philosopher —> wise

but sometimes you’ll need

greek & philosopher —> wise

and that’ll depend on the specific wording of the question.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.