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Why there are more than one verb in this sentence?

English Language & Usage Asked by user403214 on December 23, 2020

"You will have classes with the rest of your
House, sleep in your House dormitory, and spend free
time in your House common room."

This is from Harry Potter. I think "have", "sleep" and "spend" are verbs in this sentence, while I don’t understand how does "sleep" exists here as a verb without a conjunction? and it’s also not a participle I guess?

Thank you guys!

One Answer

You will have classes with the rest of your House, sleep in your House dormitory, and spend free time in your House common room.

This is a three-element list, and in lists, you only put a conjunction before the last element.

The author could have written this:

You will have classes ..., you will sleep ..., and you will spend ....

However, when the subject (you) is the same for each element of the list, we don’t need to repeat it. We can do the same with verbs, even a helping verb (will) attached to different main verbs (have, sleep, spend).

Answered by StephenS on December 23, 2020

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