Question

Fill in the blank using the appropriate word/words to complete the if clause :

Mala : Kala, you told me on the other day that you would buy a diamond

necklace. Did you buy it?

Kala : No Mala, I didn’t buy it. My mother told me she would give

some money. If my mother had given me money I __________

bought it.​

Answer 1

Filling the blanks with appropriate words as follows:-

Mala: Kala, you told me the other day that you would buy a diamond

necklace. Did you buy it?

Kala: No Mala, I didn’t buy it. My mother told me she would give

some money. If my mother had given me money I would have surely

bought it.​

• The sentence after filling in the blank has become a complex sentence.
• sentences are of three types - simple, compound and complex.
• a simple sentence has only one independent clause.
• a compound sentence is formed of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• a complex sentence is formed of an independent clause and a dependent clause, joined by a subordinate conjunction.
• Here 'if' is the subordinate conjunction.