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✏️ For Practice
1. Find out which of the following sentences are simple, which are compound and which are complex:
(i) Hari is my brother.
⏺️ Simple Sentence
(ii) Don't tell a lie.
⏺️ Simple sentence
(iii) He says that the earth moves round
the sun.
⏺️ Complex Sentence
(iv) We are rich but they are poor.
⏺️ Compound Sentence
(v) Where does he come from?
⏺️ Simple Sentence
(vi) Though they are poor, they are
happy.
⏺️ Complex Sentence.
(vii) Some people saw the tiger and
began to run.
⏺️ Compound Sentence
(viii) He is a thief and we should punish
him.
⏺️ Compound Sentence
(ix) Unless you work hard from now,
you will not pass the examination.
⏺️ Complex sentence
(x) Please give me a piece of paper.
⏺️ Simple Sentence
(xi) I know where he lives.
⏺️ Complex Sentence
(xii) Walk carefully otherwise you will
fall down.
⏺️ Compound Sentence
(xiii) Reena neither sings nor dances.
⏺️ Compound Sentence
(xiv) There is beautiful natural scenery
in Darjeeling.
⏺️ Simple Sentence
(xv) He did not earn much in his youth,
therefore he will suffer in his old age.
⏺️ Complex Sentence
2. Find out the co - ordinate and sub - ordinate clauses in the above list of sentences.
(iii) He says that the earth moves round
the sun.
⏺️ The earth moves round the sun
👉 sub - ordinate clause.
(iv) We are rich but they are poor.
⏺️ We are rich, they are poor
👉 co-ordinate clause
(vi) Though they are poor, they are
happy.
⏺️ Though they are poor
👉 sub-ordinate clause
(vii) Some people saw the tiger and
began to run.
⏺️ Some people saw the tiger, Some
people began to run
👉 Co-ordinate Clause
(viii) He is a thief and we should punish
him.
⏺️ He is a thief, we should punish him
👉 Co-ordinate Clause
(ix) Unless you work hard from now,
you will not pass the examination.
⏺️ You work hard from now, You will
not pass the examination
👉 Co-ordinate Clause
(xi) I know where he lives.
⏺️ Where he lives
👉 Subordinate Clause
(xii) Walk carefully otherwise you will
fall down.
⏺️ Walk carefully, you will fall down
👉 Co-ordinate Clause
(xiii) Reena neither sings nor dances.
⏺️ Reena neither sings, nor dances
👉 Co-ordinate Clause
(xv) He did not earn much in his youth,
therefore he will suffer in his old age.
⏺️ He will suffer in his old age, He did
not earn much in his youth
👉 Co-ordinate Clause
3. Fill up the blanks with suitable Subordinate conjunctions.
(a) I don't know ...... he will come.
⏺️ When
(b) ...... he was honest, he was loved by
all.
⏺️As
(c) ...... You worked hard, you will
surely pass.
⏺️If
(d) I had been waiting at the station ....
the train arrived.
⏺️ Till
(e) Mr. Baruah will not be at his office
today, ...... it is a holiday.
⏺️As
(f) We know ...... Leela is a good dancer
⏺️ That
(g) I will come ...... you promise to take
me to the cinema.
⏺️ If
(h) The boy trembled ...... he spoke.
⏺️ As
(i) The train had not started ...... we
arrived at the station.
⏺️ Untill
(j) Look ...... you leap.
⏺️ Before
(k) Wait here ...... I come back.
⏺️ Untill
(l) ...... he is rich he is not happy.
⏺️ Though
(m) They did the same thing ...... I did.
⏺️ What
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