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Some commonly used subordinating conjunctions are given below.

after since if even because
unless whereas wherever while although
though until when whenever as

Compound-Complex Sentence
A compound-complex sentence is one that contains two independent clauses and or more dependent clause.
For example:

u I read the English newspapers because I want to improve my English, and I can keep myself up to date.

u Anil hit the ball, so Sunil ran to catch it because the ball went towards him.
The highlighted groups of words represent the dependent clause in each sentence.

The part of the sentence that contains a subject and a predicate and makes complete sense is called a
clause.

Complete Sentence
Generally speaking, in order for a sentence to be complete, it must consist of a subject and a verb and it must
express a complete thought.
For example:

u Sita walked along the holy river Ganga.
If we take out Sita or walked, we would have an incomplete sentence expressing an incomplete thought.
Types of Sentences

Statement or Question or Emotion/Reaction or Order or Imperative
Declarative Sentence Interrogative Sentence Exclamatory Sentence Sentence
• Provides information • Asks a question. • Expresses a strong • Shows an order, command,
or states a fact. • Always ends with a emotion. request or advice.
• Always ends with a question mark (‘?’). • Always ends with an • Can end with a full stop
‘full stop’ (‘.’). exclamation mark (‘!’). or an exclamation mark
(‘.’ or ‘!’).
Examples

Green is my favourite Do you want tea or This is the best day of my Please lower your voice.
colour. coffee? life!
The exam begins in two Is it sunny? Oh, God! he felt hard. Send ASAP.
hours.

You’re a good man, Have you had I can’t wait for her arrival. Meet Shyam in the lawn at
Rajat. breakfast? 11 a.m.

Articles

The words ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ are called articles. They point out people, places, animals and things.
There are two types of articles.

Indefinite articles — a and an Definite article — the

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