2. write the compound sentence. how do you know?
"the thermometer and the cough syrup are in the medicine cabinet next to the cotton balls."

This isn't a compound sentence

it does not have a conjuction, colon or semicolon joining two independent clauses.

A compound sentence would be this:

The thermometer and the cough syrup are in the medicine cabinet; they are next to the cotton balls.

for me i cant do homework without music, so, i guess i would say faster with it, than without it. for me at least.

the text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in louisiana.

explanation: