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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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