A compound claim is made up of other claims but has to interpreted as just one claim. There are many examples of compound claims and I will be going over the two: "or" claims and conditionals. But first of all I need to make clear that not every sentence that contains to claims is a compound claim. An example of that would be:
She is going to become a nurse because she is attending college.
That is actually an argument not a claim.
"Alternatives are the claims that are the parts of an 'or' claim." Arguments may be weak because the function of a compound claim is causing it to be weak. These kind of claims also help excluding possibilites.
A conditional claim is usually written as an "If... then..." claim and must have truth value. This is the way most people talk about how things could turn out in particular situations.
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