' he stood on the bank and smiled at taffy ' ( identify the type of sentence).
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The given sentence 'He stood on the bank and smiled at Taffy' is a compound sentence as the conjunction 'and' has been used to join two independent sentences, 'He stood on the bank.' and 'He smiled at Taffy.'
Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'compound sentence' as 'a sentence made from two independent sentences joined by "and", "or", or "but", as in "Mary read and Tom slept."'
He stood on the bank and smiled at taffy.
This is a compound predicate sentence since it has a single subject with compound predicates and joined by "coordinating conjunction".
He is the subject, doing two actions -stood and smiled. Taffy is the direct object.
A compound predicate has a single subject doing two actions that are joined by coordinating conjunction like "for, and, nor", but, or, yet, so. In the above sentence, the complete predicate segment is 'stood on the bank and smiled at taffy' with the subject 'he'.