WHAT IS subordinating conjunctions?
words that connect dependent and independent clauses
Find conjunction of this sentence
I spent all night playing my cell phone so I felt tired.
So
What exactly is reported speech?🤓
Speech used to tell what somebody has said or written.
What is noun clause?
A subordinate clause that functions as a noun in a sentence.It can act as a subject, object or complement.
Happy new year!
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gave me a conjunction that represents condition
If,only if,unless etc.
Gave me a sentence using one or more conjunction(s) that represents reason.
Ex:Since it’s the first time I met such a fascinating books,I was deeply attracted to it.
Gave me 2 reporting verbs
Tell,inform, notify etc.
Gave me the feature of complex sentences.
Contains one independent(main) clause and at least one dependent(subordinate) clause introduced by subordinating conjunctions.
What is independent clause?
An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a complete sentence because it expresses a complete thought.
Gave me special feature of correlative conjunctions.
Comes in PAIRS
BOOMMMM!
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What is the tense of the reported speech if the original speech is present?
Present of course🤓👌
Gave your own complex sentences.
Ex:Although it was raining, we decided to go for a walk because I was just so bored.
The book, which she borrowed from the library because her friend recommended it, turned out to be fascinating.
What kind of complex sentence is this?
Adjective clause
Find the correct conjunction(s) to be added here.(maybe more than one)
I felt I did a pretty awful luck during debates, _____ me and my partner got a bye!
However,but,surprisingly etc.
What is the use of correlative conjunctions?
Used to illustrate two words and phrases and they come in PAIRS🍐
Direct Speech: The teacher asked, “Why didn’t you complete your homework on time yesterday?”
How would you convert this into reported speech?
The teacher asked me why I hadn’t completed my homework on time the previous day.
• Even though the weather forecast predicted clear skies, a sudden thunderstorm rolled in, causing many outdoor events to be canceled before they even began.
find the independent clause
A sudden thunderstorm rolled in.
BOOOMMMMMM!
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find the conjunction(s) in these sentences
In lowland country almost any spot on the ground may overlie what was once the bed of a river that has since become buried by soil; if they are now below the water’s upper surface (the water table), the gravels and sands of the former riverbed, and its sandbars, will be saturated with groundwater.
If,and,with,what
BOOOOMMMMM!
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Write this in reported speech
”I found a cake here 5 minutes ago.”She said.
She said that she had found a cake there yesterday.
When broken open, Allende stones are revealed to contain an assortment of small, distinctive objects, spherical or irregular in shape and embedded in a dark gray matrix (binding material), which were once constituents of the solar nebula-the interstellar cloud of gas and dust out of which our solar system was formed.
Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. Allende meteorites were formed when constituents of the interstellar cloud of gas and dust got trapped inside small, roughly spherical objects and these objects became bound together in a dark gray matrix.
B. Inside Allende meteorites is a dark gray matrix that binds together small spherical or irregular objects formed from the interstellar cloud of gas and dust out of which the solar system was made.
C. By breaking open Allende meteorites, scientists were able to find out what the solar nebula was made of.
D. Allende meteorites were filled with material formed almost entirelyfrom interstellar gas and dust.
B
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