Let’s read these sentences.
1. Dia wanted to drive her car to the mall. Her car would not start.
2. My grandparents live in village. They have a lot of land.
3. I want to be a doctor. I want to be a software developer.
1. Dia wanted to drive her car to the mall, but her car would not start.
2. My grandparents live in village, and they have a lot of land.
3. I want to be a doctor or a software developer.
In the above sentence, we combined two sentences using word “and”, “but”, and “or”.
Words that are used to combine two sentences, phrases or words are called conjunctions.
In case, new sentence contains two complete sentences, use a comma before the conjunction.
Commonly used Conjunctions
- AND - used for the words or sentences that are taken jointly
Example: Riddhi and Siddhi study in the same class.
- BUT - used to show contrast in ideas
Example: Ravi is dull but Rohit is brilliant.
- OR - used to indicate that only one possibility can realized between the two
Example: Complete your work or you will stay late in the office.
Practice Exercise
Q1) Use the word (and/but/or) to put the sentences together:a. Aviral went to the river. Aviral learned fishing.
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b. Would you like to have coffee? Would you like to have tea?
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c. I have to buy bread from the market. I have to buy butter from the market.
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d. Some children are afraid of cockroach. I am not afraid.
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e. My son eats every fruit. He likes mango the most.
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f. We can play badminton. We can play football.
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g. Ayush has brought sandwich in his lunch box. Ayush has brought sweets in his lunch box.
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h. Dia has to clean her room. She is very tired.
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i. My mom is home today. She is preparing something special for the lunch.
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Q2) Fill in the blanks in the sentences below using conjunctions: and, but, or
a. Avi allow his friends to play with his toys __________not with his football.
b. Would you do study Hindi ___________English first?
c. The teacher wanted children to do both English ____________ Math project.
d. Would you like to have pine apple juice ___________ orange juice in your breakfast today?
e. Meera cannot watch television ____________ play until she finishes her homework.
f. This book contains 500 pages _________ I read the whole book.
g. I looked under the table ________I could not found my pencil box.
h. I wanted to play outside __________ it was raining heavily.
i. Dia loves to play badminton ___________basketball.
j. Tia bought spinach _______ cooked it for the dinner.
k. Today was Diva’s birthday ___________ Ravi forgot to bring gift for her.
l. Ravi ____________ Avi are brothers.