First off, what is a compound claim? A compound claim is a compound consisting of several claims put together into one whole sentence. An example of what makes a compound claim would be these two separate claims: She went to the market to purchase tomatoes. She went into her garden to pick her home-grown tomatoes. Now, to combine these claims to make them into a "compound claim," would look something like this: She either went to the market to purchase some tomatoes, or she went into her garden to pick her home-grown tomatoes. The one word that makes this whole sentence what it is (a compound claim), is the word OR. That is the key to making two claims become one to be a compound.
Now, what is a contradictory claim? It is one claim that is then opposed by other, which wholly contradicts the very first claim. An example of this would be: Jennifer is wide awake. One claim that would contradict this would be, "Jennifer is fast asleep." As you can see, someone being awake versus being asleep are total opposites. To say that a person is a awake and then revising your words and saying they are now asleep are two totally different things. If I were to say that Jennifer is awake versus Jennifer is ABOUT to sleep, then that would not be a contradictory claim. Someone who is just ABOUT to sleep would not be the complete opposite from someone who is wide awake. Therefore, being "fast asleep" would be a better fit as an example for a contradictory claim for being "wide awake."
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