Use a dictionary and write which word in column 1 can collocate with those in the
next five columns. Put a tick ( ✓ ) mark in the relevant column. Use the apt
collocations in your own sentences.
word
sympathy
opinion
welcome
congratulations
dream
heartfelt
deep
childhood
express
strong
warm
Look at the following sentences taken from the reading passage.
1.
As he raced down the golden-lined wheat fields, he would always outrun the
locomotives passing by.
2.
When he heard the singing of some distant robins in flight, he knew it was his time
to fly.
3.
Since the other vaulter had fewer misses, Michael needed to clear this vault to win.
The above three sentences have two parts. In one part of the sentence is separated
by ‘Comma’ which lacks complete sense. It has to depend on the other part of the
sentence for complete sense.
The sentence part that is incomplete is dependent clause and the sentence part that
has complete sense is independent clause.
In the above sentences the clauses with as and when denote time whereas since
denotes reason. As and when refer to time and the other parts state what happened
at that time. In the third sentence, the clause beginning with since states the reason
and the other states the consequence.
The words as, when, since are conjunctions, which connect two sentences (clauses).
The clauses containing these words are called Adverbial clauses. These adverbial
clauses cannot stand independently, so they are called Dependent clauses or