Exercise 33: Because/Because of
- It was difficult to deliver the letter because the sender had written the weong address on the envelove.
- We decide to leave early because the party was boring.
- Rescue attempt were temporarily halted because of the bad weather.
- They visitedtheir friends often because they enjoy their company.
- Paul cannoot got to the football game because of his grades.
- Marcella was awarded a scholarship because of her superior scolastic ability.
- Nobody ventured outdoors because of the hurricane warming.
- We plant to spend our vacation in the mauntains because the air is purer there.
- We have to drive arround the bay because the bridge was destroye in the storm.
- The chickens have died because of the intense heat.
Exercise 34: So/Such
- The sun shone so brightly that Maria had to put on her sunglasses.
- Dean was such a powerfull swimmer that the always won the races.
- There were such few student registered that the class was cancelled.
- We had such wonderfull memories of that place that we decided to return.
- We had so good a time at the party that we hated to leave.
- The benefit was so great a success that the promoters decide to repeat it.
- It was such a nice daythat we decided to go to the beach.
- Jane looked so sick that the nurse told her to go home.
- Those were so difficult assigments that we spent two weeks finishing them.
- Ray called such an early hour that we weren't awake yet.
- The book looked so interesting that he decided to read it.
- He worked so carefully that it took him a long time to complete the project.
- We stayed in the sun for such a long time that we became sunbumed.
- There were so many people on the bus that we decided to walk.
- The program was such entertaining that nobody wanted to miss it
CONJUNCTIONS
Definition
Some words are satisfied spending an evening at home, alone, eating ice-cream right out of the box, watching Seinfeld re-runs on TV, or reading a good book. Others aren't happy unless they're out on the town, mixing it up with other words; they're joiners and they just can't help themselves. A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.
Coordinating conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions, also called coordinators, are conjunctions that join two or more items (such as words, main clauses, or sentences) of equal syntactic importance. In English, themnemonic acronym FANBOYS can be used to remember the coordinators for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.These are not the only coordinating conjunctions; various others are used, including"and nor" (British), "but nor" (British), "or nor" (British), "neither" ("They don't gamble; neither do they smoke"), "no more" ("They don't gamble; no more do they smoke"), and "only" ("I would go, only I don't have time").
Here are some examples of coordinating conjunctions in English and what they do:
- for
- presents a reason ("He is gambling with his health, for he has been smoking far too long.").
- and
- presents non-contrasting item(s) or idea(s) ("They gamble, and they smoke.").
- nor
- presents a non-contrasting negative idea ("They do not gamble nor do they smoke.").
- but
- presents a contrast or exception ("They gamble, but they don't smoke.").
- or
- presents an alternative item or idea ("Every day they gamble or they smoke.").
- yet
- presents a contrast or exception ("They gamble, yet they don't smoke.").
- so
- presents a consequence ("He gambled well last night so he smoked a cigar to celebrate.").
Correlative conjunctions
CORRELATIVE conjunctions work in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence. There are six different pairs of correlative conjunctions:- either...or
- not only...but (also)
- neither...nor (or increasingly neither...or)
- both...and
- whether...or
- just as...so
Examples:- You either do your work or prepare for a trip to the office.
- Not only is he handsome, but he is also brilliant.
- Neither the basketball team nor the football team is doing well.
- Both the cross country team and the swimming team are doing well.
- Whether you stay or you go, it's your decision.
- Just as many Australians love cricket, so many Canadians love ice hockey.
Subordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions, also called subordinators, are conjunctions that conjoin an independent clause and a dependent clause. The most common subordinating conjunctions in the English language include after, although, as, as far as, as if, as long as, as soon as, as though, because, before, if, in order that, since, so, so that, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where,where as, wherever, and while. Complementizers can be considered to be special subordinating conjunctions that introduce complement clauses (e.g., "I wonder whether he'll be late. I hope thathe'll be on time"). Some subordinating conjunctions (until and while), when used to introduce a phrase instead of a full clause, become prepositions with identical meanings.In many verb-final languages, subordinate clauses must precede the main clause on which they depend. The equivalents to the subordinating conjunctions of non-verb-final languages such as English are either- clause-final conjunctions (e.g., in Japanese); or
- suffixes attached to the verb and not separate words
Such languages in fact often lack conjunctions as a part of speech because:- the form of the verb used is formally nominalised and cannot occur in an independent clause
- the clause-final conjunction or suffix attached to the verb is actually formally a marker of case and is also used on nouns to indicate certain functions. In this sense, the subordinate clauses of these languages have much in common with postpositional phrases.
In other West-Germanic languages like German or Dutch, the word order after a subordinating conjunction is different from the one in an independent clause, e.g., in Dutch want (for) is coordinating, but omdat (because) is subordinating. The clause after the coordinating conjunction has normal word order, but the clause after the subordinating conjunction has verb-final word order. Compare:- Hij gaat naar huis, want hij is ziek. ("He goes home, for he is ill.")
- Hij gaat naar huis, omdat hij ziek is. ("He goes home because he is ill.")
Similarly, in German, "denn" (for) is coordinating, but "weil" (because) is subordinating:- Er geht nach Hause, denn er ist krank. ("He goes home, for he is ill.")
- Er geht nach Hause, weil er krank ist. ("He goes home because he is ill.")
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