Original sentences: Within minutes, they had their equipment packed. They were off! Combined sentence: Within minutes, they had their equipment packed and were off! Does the combined sentence use a compound subject, compound verb, or compound object? compound verb compound object compound subject

Compound verb

Explanation:

A compound verb is a verb made up of two or more words. Examples of compound verbs include verbs with prepositions (like to, for and on), verbs with auxiliaries (e. g. have, be, do, could and may), verbs with adverbs or phrasal verbs (e. g walk away) and compound single-word verbs (like kickstart).

The sentence provided has a compound verb: "had ( ...) packed." This compound verb it's made of the auxiliary in past "had" and the verb in past participle "packed."

The second one has a compound object as the first one had a pause in the middle of a sentence.