CONJUNCTION AND RELATIVE CLAUSES
1. CONJUNCTION
We commonly join words, phrases and/or sentences together in
a narrative. The words to join are called conjunctions.
e.g. :
·
I seized the cat, took a small knife out of my
pocket and cut one of its eyes out.
·
I hung the poor creature until it was
dead.
·
I soon began to dislike the cat because
it often stared at me with a strange and hatred look.
·
After my wife had been buried in the
wall, the police came to my house.
Type of conjunction
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Examples
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Time
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after,
before, since, while, when, as
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Result
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so, so that
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contrast
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although,
though, even though, while
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Reason
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as, because, in case, for
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Purpose
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so that, in
order that
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Manner
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as, as if, as though
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2. RELATIVE CLAUSES
We can also join up sentences in other ways:
1. Using Relative Pronoun: who, whose, whom, which,
that.
e.g. :
·
Helen is the girl. I met her at the party last
night.
Helen is the girl whom I met at the
party last night.
·
Who does the house belong to? It stands on the
hill.
Whose house that stands on the hill belong to?
·
I beat the wall. I buried my wife in the wall.
I beat the wall which I buried my
wife in.
2. Using words like ‘when’ and ‘where’.
e.g. :
·
I was walking home from school. I saw a kitten
in a drain.
I was walking home from school when
I saw a kitten in a drain.
·
This is the shop. I bought several postcards in
that shop yesterday.
This is the shop where I bought several
postcards yesterday.
3. By
leaving out some words or changing them into present participle/ past participle
e.g. :
·
Mr. Smith lives in a little cottage. It is near
the beach.
Mr. Smith lives in a little cottage
near the beach.
·
I raised my axe. I wanted to kill the poor
animal.
I raised my axe wanting to kill the poor animal.
·
The speaker refused to continue. He was
infuriated by the interruptions.
Infuriated by the interruptions,
the speaker refused to continue.
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