Question

Join the following sentences to form an illative compound sentence:
It’s raining outside. You should carry an umbrella.
A) It’s raining outside, so you should carry an umbrella.
B) It’s raining outside nor you should carry an umbrella.
C) It’s raining outside as you should carry an umbrella.
D) It’s raining outside but you should carry an umbrella.

Answer 1

Hint: The word illative is an adjective. The meaning of illative is ‘nature of or starting an inference’. But in grammar the illative means ‘relating to or denoting a case of nouns and it is used to express motion into something.

Complete answer:
Compound sentences are those sentences that are made up with two independent clauses or short sentences and these sentences are complete sentences on their own. For example: I like tea. Rohan likes coffee. (dependent clauses can be – I like tea and Rohan likes coffee).

Let us look into the given options:
Option A) It’s raining outside, so you should carry an umbrella – is the correct answer because ‘so’ has been used in connecting two independent clauses. ‘So’ is used here as an appropriate illative conjunction to join two sentences and it is clearly stated that the second sentence draws inference from the first sentence. Therefore, this is the correct answer.

Option B) It’s raining outside nor you should carry an umbrella – is an incorrect answer because ‘nor’ is incorrectly used here. The meaning of illative conjunction nor is ‘and not’ and it is making the sense of the sentence meaningless. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Option C) It’s raining outside as you should carry an umbrella – is an incorrect answer because the use of ‘as’ while connecting two sentences are logically wrong and making the sense of the sentence incorrect. The second clause of the same sentences do not draw any inference from their respective first clause. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Option D) It’s raining outside but you should carry an umbrella – is an incorrect answer because the use of ‘but’ is incorrectly used and making sentences logically wrong. ‘But’ for is used to describe the reason why something didn't happen. But is used after words like: everyone, nobody, anything, anywhere, all, no, none, any, every. The second clause of the same sentences do not draw any inference from their respective first clause. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

It’s raining outside, so you should carry an umbrella – Illative compound sentence (Option A)

Thus the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: Key points to remember while making illative compound sentences and they are:
i) Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
ii) Coordinating conjunctions join independent clauses and they are joined with the help of words like: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
iii) Use a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb and a conjunctive adverb is a type of transition.