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‘that’ , relative adverbs like ‘after’ or ‘wh’ words like
‘who’, ‘which’, ‘whatever’, ‘whenever’ as shown in the
examples given below.
1. This is the house that Jack built.
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2. I washed the dishes after I ate breakfast.
3. Nathan ate pancakes while he read the news paper.
4. Whenever he sees a pretty sunset, Nathan wants
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to visit the beach.
5. He is the doctor who operated on my mother.
6. This is the Ibrahim Rauza which was built by Ibra-
him Adilshah.
Task 1. Identify the main clause and the subordinate clause
in each of the sentences taken from the lesson given
above (page 98).
Task 2. Read the story carefully and pick out the complex
sentences you come across. Classify the main clauses
and subordinate clauses in the sentences you have
picked out.
Read and respond
The following is an excerpt from a popular English Daily.
Read and understand.
Bill to curb punishment in schools on the cards
New Delhi- Demand for capitation fee, corporal punishment and
insistence on purchase of books, uniform, stationery, or other
materials from school premises or a particular shop, will be a
punishable offence with imprisonment for a term extending to
three years, according to a draft bill that seeks to curb malprac-
tices in schools.
The legislation drafted as instructed by the Human Resource
Development Ministry, also seeks to make a punishable offence
any offer or payment of capitation fee or donation, by way of
consideration either in cash or kind or otherwise, for obtaining
admission to any class in any school.
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