What are the difference between one sentence and two sentences?
I read and he studied at my house.
Do you like one sentence? I can’t spell out what it is. Could you clarify it? Thank you so
much for your help!
It’s a one.
To make it two you would write it like:
I read. He studied at my house.
I
read at my house. What does this mean to me? He studied in my house.
But to do this would be unnecessary and perhaps come across a little clumsy.
So, be honest, we have a choice.
It is a sentence consisting of two finite clauses connected (conjoined) with the conjunction and. Very often a comma will go before the and (or other conjunction), as in
I read, and he studied at my house.
The first finite clause ( I read ) is so short that a comma shouldn’t be needed. If before and if the finite clause
is not short then the comma would be used if the answer is said in the following
sentence: “I read twenty books in between 7pm to 10pm on Wednesday, and he studied at my house” This sentence is what I do when I’m writing two sentence with the same sentence. If the whole thing is still one sentence with two finite clauses (the verb in each clause is finite: read, studied, etc.) notice that
the whole thing is still one sentence with two finite clauses.