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The tornado yesterday.
I saw the tornado yesterday.
Winds whirl around at high speeds.
What is the predicate?
whirl around at high speeds.
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What is the simple subject in this sentence?
The gusty winds uproot trees.
Is the sentence compound or simple?
Warm air rises rapidly, and sometimes it begins to spin
compound
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Always keep away from windows during a tornado.
sentence
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The winds were strong they destroyed the houses.
run-on
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What is the complete predicate in this sentence?
Winds whirl around at high speeds.
whirl around at high speeds
About 700 tornadoes occur in the United States each year.
What is the verb?
occur
The spinning air sometimes forms a tornado.
Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex?
simple
The National Weather Service
Fragment, run-on, or complete?
fragment
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After the storm passed.
fragment
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A tornado looks like a dark funnel-shaped cloud.
What is the subject?
tornado
The powerful storms damage everything in their path.
What is the subject? What is the verb?
storms, damage
Although most tornadoes last only a few minutes, they can cause great damage.
Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex?
complex
Warns people about tornadoes.
Fragment, run-on, or complete?
fragment
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A tornado hit the town yesterday and caused damage.
Fragment, run-on, complete?
complete
The twisting cloud picks up dirt from the ground.
What is the verb?
picks up
Weather scientists track tornadoes.
Who is the subject? What do they do?
scientists
track
Although most tornadoes last only a few minutes, they can cause great damage.
Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex?
not complex, but simple
A storm cellar gives the best protection from a tornado.
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complete
Although the storm was very strong.
Fragment, run-on, or complete?
fragment
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The dangerous storms move in a narrow path across the earth.
What is the subject?
storms
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What is the verb?
Most tornadoes hit the midwestern states.
What is the subject? What is the verb?
tornadoes
hit
An F5 rating on the F-scale stands for the greatest wind strength.
Is this sentence simple, compound, or complex?
simple
They encouraged him they helped him. Fragment, run-on, or complete?
run-on
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