GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
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Detailed explanation-1: -To join two independent clauses, writers often use a comma followed by a coordinating conjunction. The basic structure of a sentence that uses a coordinating conjunction is as follows: Subject + verb + object, [coordinating conjunction] subject + verb + object.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of Coordinating Conjunctions You can eat your cake with a spoon or fork. My dog enjoys being bathed but hates getting his nails trimmed. Bill refuses to eat peas, nor will he touch carrots. I hate to waste a drop of gas, for it is very expensive these days.
Detailed explanation-3: -English has seven coordinating conjunctions-for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so-which you can remember using the mnemonic FANBOYS: For indicates causation: “We left a day early, for the weather was not as clement as we had anticipated.”
Detailed explanation-4: -’He always seems to proofread his papers carefully, yet he never catches all the errors’ is a good example of the effective use of YET. Shorter phrases and words can be similarly joined by this conjunction, as in ‘She had a desire for perfection, yet no patience at all’ and ‘He was wise, yet careless.