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16 Conjunctions
Warm-up
Correct the use of conjunctions in these sentences.
1. I’ll bat unless you bowl.
2. You can eat your food with a spoon but a fork.
3. Rajesh likes soccer, because Amar likes cricket.
4. Mother wanted to make apple pie unless there were no apples.
5. You can watch television until you can play in the park.
6. It was raining because they played carrom.
7. We could not go to the amusement park whereas it was closed.
8. Turn off the stove although the stew boils.
9. The cat is very brave if the dog is not.
10. I did not go swimming whether it was raining.
A conjunction is a word which is used to join two words, two phrases or
two sentences together.
Kinds of Conjunctions
There are three types of conjunctions. Let us study them.
1. Coordinating Conjunctions such as and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so join two
independent clauses. For example,
y Sally doesn’t eat fruits, nor does she eat salads.
y I hate to waste fuel, for it is very expensive these days.
y My pet dog enjoys taking a bath, but he hates going out in the rain.
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