In this article, we will take a look at some common mistakes in the use of conjunctions.<\/p>\n
Incorrect: Although she was tired, but she went to work.<\/p>\n
Correct: Although she was tired<\/strong>, she went to work.<\/p>\n Correct: She was tired but she went to work.<\/strong><\/p>\n Incorrect: Though he is fat but he runs fast.<\/p>\n Correct: Though he is fat<\/strong> he runs fast.<\/p>\n Correct: He is fat but he runs fast.<\/strong><\/p>\n Explanation<\/strong><\/p>\n One conjunction is enough to join two clauses \u2013 we do not normally use two.<\/p>\n Incorrect: He was absent. Because he was ill.<\/p>\n Correct: He was absent because he was ill.<\/strong><\/p>\n Explanation<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a common punctuation mistake. Because<\/strong> is a subordinating conjunction; it must never be separated from its main clause by a full stop.<\/p>\n Incorrect: There is the girl who she works with my brother.<\/p>\n Correct: There is the girl who works with my brother.<\/strong><\/p>\n Incorrect: She never returns the books that I lend her them.<\/p>\n Correct: She never returns the books that I lend her.<\/strong><\/p>\n Explanation<\/strong><\/p>\n Relative pronouns join clauses like conjunctions. A relative pronoun is like the subject or object of the verb that comes after it. So we do not need another subject or object.<\/p>\n Incorrect: The house that I live is very small.<\/p>\n Correct: The house where I live is very small.<\/p>\n Correct: The house that I live in is very small.<\/p>\n That<\/strong> can be used instead of which or who(m),<\/strong> but we do not usually use that<\/strong> instead of when or where.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this article, we will take a look at some common mistakes in the use of conjunctions. Incorrect: Although she was tired, but she went to work. Correct: Although she was tired, she went...<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}