{"id":486,"date":"2015-01-22T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2015-01-22T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T10:02:09","slug":"conjunctions-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/conjunctions-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjunctions exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Correct the following sentences.<\/h3>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0She was upset, because didn\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Although she was tired, but she went to work.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Because I liked him, so I tried to help him.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0As you know, that I work hard.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Though he is fat, still he runs fast.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0As he is fat, so he runs slowly.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Unless you do not try, you will not win.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0No sooner I had spoken, than he left.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Neither he comes nor he writes.<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Not only he will go, but also he will remain there.<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0She was upset <strong>because she<\/strong> didn\u2019t know what to do. (Words for repeated ideas cannot be dropped in subordinate clauses.)<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Although<\/strong> she was tired, she went to work. OR She was tired <strong>but<\/strong> she went to work. (One conjunction is enough to join two clauses \u2013 we do not normally use two.)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0Because<\/strong> I liked him, I tried to help him. OR I liked him,<strong> so<\/strong> I tried to help him.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>As you know,<\/strong> I work hard. OR<strong> You know that<\/strong> I work hard.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Though<\/strong> he is fat, he runs fast. OR He is fat;<strong> still<\/strong> he runs fast.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0As<\/strong> he is fat, he runs slowly. OR He is fat, <strong>so<\/strong> he runs slowly.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Unless you try, you will not win.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0No sooner had I<\/strong> spoken, than he left. (Sentences beginning with negative expressions like no sooner, hardly and neither have an inverted word order. That means the auxiliary verb comes before the subject.)<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Neither does he come, nor does he write. OR He neither comes nor writes.<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Not only will he go, but he will also<\/strong> remain there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct the following sentences. 1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0She was upset, because didn\u2019t know what to do. 2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Although she was tired, but she went to work. 3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Because I liked him, so I tried to help&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises","tag-grammar-worksheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}