Read the sentence. A hedge of rosemary and lavender surrounded the herb garden. What must the writer add to the sentence above in order to create a compound sentence?

A compound sentence joins two independent clauses, each of which can stand alone as a complete sentence. “A hedge of rosemary and lavender surrounded the herb garden” is one independent clause, so the writer must add another independent clause and connect them with a coordinating conjunction, such as and or but. Therefore, the correct choice is “a coordinating conjunction and an independent clause.”

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