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Subordinating Conjunctions
A subordinating conjunction introduces a
dependent clause and indicates the nature of
the relationship among the independent
clause(s) and the dependent clause(s).
Fun Activity:
. _________ he claims that he is innocent, everyone knows he is guilty.
Now that
In order that
2. _________ you're here, I'm going to tell you a secret.
Now that
In order that
. _________ you like him personally, you have to agree that he's done a lot for the
If only
Rather than
Whether or not
4. _________ I prefer to live in an apartment, my wife wants to buy a house.
5. _________ I had seen that movie three times, I watched it again.
6. _________ you already know the answer, why are you asking me?
7. _________ you go to the beach, call your brother.
8. _________ giving the money to my sister, I gave it to my cousins.
Rather than
9. _________ she calls me, I feel happy.
10. _________ the test starts, you will not be able to talk.
are words or phrases used to exclaim or protest
or command. They sometimes stand by
themselves, but they are often contained within
larger structures.
Conventions like Hi, Bye and Goodbye are interjections, as are
pronoun, they are very often characterized by exclamation
worry." Much profanitytakes the form of interjections. Some linguists
since they have no syntactical connection with other words and
rather work as sentences themselves. Expressions such as "Excuse
similar ones often serve as interjections. Interjections can be
"Wow!" or "sup!".
Several English interjections contain sounds that do not
(or very rarely) exist in regular
English phonological inventory.
For example:
Ahem is common in American English, some British
dialects, and in other languages, such as German.
Oops, an interjection made in response to the
observation of a minor mistake, usually written as
"Oops!" or "Whoops!"
syllable-word, and its consonant cluster does not occur
initially in regular English words.
African languages.
otherwise does not exist in English, though is common in languages
like Spanish, German, and Gaelic.
Whew or phew ("what a relief!"), also spelled shew, this sound is a
common phoneme in such languages as Suki (a language of New
is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being
made by the noun. Articles specify
grammatical definiteness of the noun, in some languages
extending to volume or numerical scope. The articles in
the English language are the and a/an, and (in some
with a consonant sound) as an indefinite article.
possible for articles to be part of another part of speech category
such as a determiner, an English part of speech category that
In languages that employ articles, every common noun, with some
indefinite), just as many languages express every noun with a
itself specifies a certain definiteness. This is in contrast to other
adjectives and determiners, which are typically optional.
This obligatory nature of articles makes them
among the most common words in many
languages—in English, for example, the most
frequent word is the.[1]
 Articles are usually characterized as
either definite or indefinite.[2] A few languages with
well-developed systems of articles may distinguish
additional subtypes. Within each type, languages
may have various forms of each article, according
to grammatical attributes such as gender, number,
or case, or according to adjacent sounds.
specifies none of its noun, and can thus be
regarded as neither definite nor indefinite. On
the other hand, some consider such a word to
be a simple determiner rather than an article.
In English, this function is fulfilled by no, which
can appear before a singular or plural noun:
 No man has been on this island.
 No dogs are allowed here.
 No one is in London.

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