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It was hard to get the story clear from her cousin's answers, nevertheless she found out everything.Subordinating conjunctions serve to join a subordinate clause e.g. Whenthe play was over he asked her ifshe would let him see He felt marvellously happy as thougheverything he did were a marvel. The two girls were silent tillhe left the room. go home wheneveryou choose." Subordinating conjunctions may occasionally introduce a word e.g. When a child,he often had to run errands for his elders. There was a dry, pungent smell in the air, as though of dry vegetation, crisped by the sun. Note. It should be pointed out that a number of conjunctions (a) have hom- e.g. a) He had not heard himself called that name since his mother died. b) Everything has gone wrong since that night. c) He had his last meal in the restaurant car and hasn't had anything to eat since.
a) He found himself in his mother's arms before he saw her. b) I talked to him beforethe conference. c) I've never seen him so angry before.
a) They spoke little untilthey reached the less busy road. b) He stayed up untildawn, reading and writing.
a) After he had taken all the things out, she started the car. b) Afterlunch they all went to their rooms. INTERJECTIONS § 1. Interjections are words expressing emotions, such as sur- § 2. Some interjections are special words which are not associ- Some of these interjections serve to express quite definite feel- Other interjections, according to the tone of the voice, may § 3. There are a number of words which belong to different Some of them, like interjections proper, serve to express quite are used to express anger, annoyance; for shame serves as a re- Other interjections of this kind may express quite different Thus dear, dear or dear me or oh, dear express sorrow, im- Come or come, come indicate either encouragement or blame, Now and now, now can in different cases serve a different pur- Well, depending on the sentence in which it is used, may ex- Note. Imitation sounds such as mew, cock-a-doodle-doo, bang and the like can- § 4. Interjections are independent elements which do not per- e.g. "Oh," he exclaimed, unable to suppress his emotion. "H'm," said Mr Fox thoughtfully. The great poet said: "The tragedy of our age is that aesthetic "Did you notice the stink in the hall?" "Well,not particu- "Phew!Three times I was nearly sick." "Marian is going to see her old nurse, Nannie Robeson, in the Oh, pooh,look at these stockings! Now, Marilyn, you don't know what you are doing. Well...let's walk up there then. You're about to make a confession to me. Well,don't do it. I Some interjections may be connected with a word in the sen- e.g. Hurrah forJojo and Ed! Note. Interjections should be distinguished from such one-word sentences as NOTES ON THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF THE SENTENCE Date: 2016-01-03; view: 875
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