Compound Claims

A compound claim is when there is a sentence that contains two claims that are combined into one single claim. An example of a two single claims that can be combined into a compound claim are: "Joining a self defense gym teach you how to fight." and "Joining a self defense gym will help you control your anger." These two claims can be combined to make a compound claim such as "Joining a self defense gym will help you control your anger or it will teach you how to fight." Notice the word "or" in the compound claim. The two sentence from before have turned into a compound claim because joining a self defense will either do one or the other. Such as teaching someone to control their anger or helping their aggression by teaching someone how to fight. Not every sentence with two or more claims can be a compound claim though.