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Clause and Conjunctions:

An Introduction

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A.Verbs:From clause analysis point of view, Verbs are of two kinds.

1.Finite verbs2.Non-finite verbs3.Finite Verbs- Verbs agree to their subjects,

can tell the tense of the sentence.

sentence with the help of these verbs

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1.Non-finite verbs- verbs do not agree to their subjects and we can’t identify the tense of the sentence with the help of these verbs.

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Examples: He likes to play cricket.They want to see you.Mohan wanted to resign.

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B-Types of Sentences:1)Simple Sentence2)Compound Sentence3)Complex Sentence

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1.Simple Sentence- The sentence which has a subject and a predicate and the predicate has only one finite verb is called a Simple sentence.

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Examples:1-She writes a letter.2-You played cricket.3-We are teaching English.

4-He will have been sleeping.

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•5-We like to play basketball.•6-He wanted to visit you.•7-He went to market and bought a book.

•8-Ram and Shyam are friends.

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•Conjunctions: Those words which are used to join two or more than two words or sentences are called conjunctions.

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•These are two types:•Co-ordinate conjunctions-•And, but, yet, still, so, therefore, or, else, otherwise, either……..or, neither……….nor, not only…..but also, both…….and, not only …….as well etc.

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•Sub-ordinate conjunctions-

•As long as, so long as, before, after, when, as, while, till, until, as soon as, no sooner …….than, hardly…….when, since, because, as, so that, lest, if, unless, even if, so…that, such….that, though, although, as…..as, so…as, that,All wh words, etc.

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•Clauses – when two or more than two simple sentences are combined using a conjunction, we create a new type of sentence

•For example:•We worked pretty hard.•We could not succeed.•We join these simple sentences with the help of a conjunction “But”

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We worked pretty hared but we could not

succeed.

What are these parts of this sentence called?

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We worked pretty hard but we could not succeed. A clause A clause

A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb.

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•Types of clauses-Principal clauseCo-ordinate clause (beginning with co-

ordinate conjunctions)•

Sub-ordinate clause (beginning with a sub-ordinate conjunctions)

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2-Compound Sentence= Principal clause+ co-ordinate clause (beginning with co-ordinate conjunctions)

He should come on time else he will be marked absent.

Principal clause

Co-ordinate clause

Compound sentence

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3-Complex sentence = principal clause+ sub-ordinate clause (beginning with a sub-ordinate conjunction)

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As soon as the teacher enters the class, the students stand up.

Sub-ordinate clause Principal

clauseComplex sentence

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