Question

✦ Find the common errors in the use of conjunctions :-

1) Unless you are ill, you must take complete rest.

2) This is such a fine pen as you must buy it.

3) Thought he is rich, but he is miserly.

4) No other man but you have done it.

5) He did nothing else than weep.

6) Such candidates who are eligible must apply.


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1) Unless you are ill, you must take complete rest.

• 1) As long as you are ill, you must take complete rest.

2) This is such a fine pen as you must buy it.

• This is such a fine pen that you must buy it.

3) Thought he is rich, but he is miserly.

• Thought he is rich, yet he is miserly.

4) No other man but you have done it.

• No other man than you have done it.

5) He did nothing else than weep.

• He did nothing else but weep.

6) Such candidates who are eligible must apply.

• Such candidates as are eligible must apply.

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➠ Conjunction :- A conjunction is a word that joins words, phrases, clauses and sentences. It also establishes a relation between the parts that have been joined.

➠ The major conjunction are :-

And, thought, neither, nor, either, or, unless, lest, when, while, however, since, etc...

➠ Conjunction are divided into two classes :-

• (a) Coordinate Conjunctions.
• (b) Subordinate Conjunctions.

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