Question

One smokes, one's family suffers smoking is injurious to
health. The sooneritis given up the better
that​

Answer 1

Answer:

By definition, a simple sentence should contain only one finite verb. However it can contain an infinitive verb or a non-finite verb, as part of a phrase in a simple sentence, in addition to the one finite verb which is the Predicate of the sentence.

So when you want to combine two simple sentences into one simple sentence, you have to convert the finite verb of one of the sentences into a non-finite verb, an infinitive verb or a gerund (noun) form so that that part becomes a phrase,

“Some people smoke. It is injurious to health.”

These are two simple sentences, with two finite verbs “smoke” and “is.”

Some people smoke in spite of its injurious nature to health.

This is a single simple sentence where “in spite of its injurious nature to health” is a phrase in which the Predicate “is injurious” is changed into its noun form, “its injurious nature”, thereby eliminating the second finite verb (“is”).