Connectors

Skills 5-10
Connecting Clauses: Adverbial, Noun, Adjective.
9. The students are completing the course will graduate in June.
10. The dissatisfied custmer is returning the broken toaster to the store.
Coordinative Conjunction
• Many sentences in English have more than one clause.
• A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb.
• When you have two clauses in a sentence, you must connect the two
clauses correctly.
• One way to connect clauses is to use and, but, or, or so between
clauses.
• In this example, you should notice quickly that there are two clauses: I
forgot my coat and I got very cold.
• This sentence needs a connector to join the two clauses.
• Then, later, and as a result are not connectors.
• The best answer is (B) because so can connect two clauses in this
manner.
Adverb Clause
Connectors
• Sentences with adverb clauses have two basic patterns in English.
• Study the connectors in the following sentences:
1. He is tired because he has been working so hard.
2. Because he has been working so hard, he is tired.
• In each of these examples, there are two clauses: he is tired and he has been
working so hard.
• The clause he has been working so hard is an adverb clause that is introduced
with the connector because.
• In the second pattern, the connector because comes at the beginning of the
sentence. Here, a comma (,) is required in the middle of the sentence.
• In this example, you should recognize easily that the verb arrived needs
a subject.
• There is also another clause, he started to work immediately.
• Here you need a subject for the first clause, and you also need a
connector to link the adverb clause to the main clause.
• Because you need a connector to join two clauses, answers (A) and (C)
are incorrect.
• B is incorrect because there is no subject for the verb arrived.
• D is the best answer because there is a subject, student, for the verb,
arrived, and there is a connector, after, to join the two clauses.
NOUN CLAUSE CONNECTORS
• A noun clause is a clause that functions as a noun.
• Because the noun clause functions as a noun, it can be used in a
sentence as an object of a verb (if it follows a verb)
• or indirect object of a preposition (if it follows a preposition).
NOUN CLAUSE CONNECTOR/SUBJECTS
• Previously we have known that noun clause connectors can be used
to introduce noun clauses.
• In some cases a noun clause connector is not just a connector;
• a noun clause connector can also be the subject of the clause at the
same time.
• Study the clauses and connectors in the following sentences.
NOUN CLAUSE CONNECTOR/SUBJECTS
• Previously we have known that noun clause connectors can be used
to introduce noun clauses.
• In some cases a noun clause connector is not just a connector;
• a noun clause connector can also be the subject of the clause at the
same time.
• Study the clauses and connectors in the following sentences.