Question

Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so:
(i) This is the hospital. I was born here.
(ii) The children have been sick for a week. They were unable to go to school.
(iii) Mrs Kumar has been a teacher for thirty years. She will now retire.
(iv) We have had no respect for nature. Now we are suffering from the effects of global warming.

Answer 1

Hint: In order to join two sentences we can either use connecting words other than the given exceptions (and, but, so), or we can use the existing words and rearrange sentences. Connecting words are the words we can use that will connect the two given sentences in a way that the complete sentence is grammatically correct.

Complete answer:
There are many words called connecting words that we can use in order to join two sentences. But in the question given we are asked to join the given sentences (that were separated with a full stop) without using three specific words which are ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘so’.

The two ways we will join the two separate sentences are as follows:
- We can use prepositions or other connecting words to join the sentences.
- Rearrange the first or second sentence in a way that we eliminate the repetition of the subject, so the replacement for one of the subjects can act as the connecting word.
The given questions can be joined as shown below:

(i) This is the hospital. I was born here.
Here we use a connecting word to join the given sentences and the connecting word will be ‘where’. We connect the sentences by replacing the word ‘here’ in the second sentence with the connecting word. This is because the first sentence tells us about a place and the second sentence tells us the purpose of that place (the person was born in the hospital). We place the connecting word at the end of the first sentence that is before the beginning of the second sentence.
The complete sentence will be: “This is the hospital where I was born.”

(ii) The children have been sick for a week. They were unable to go to school.
Here we will use a connecting word ‘as’. The placement of the connecting word will be before the first sentence. This is because the first sentence is the reason due to which the scenario of the second sentence took place, hence we use ‘as’ before the part of the sentence that represents the reason.
The complete sentence will be: “As the children have been sick for a week, they were unable to go to school.”

(iii) Mrs. Kumar has been a teacher for thirty years. She will now retire.
Here we use the connecting word ‘who’. We are joining the two sentences by eliminating the subject of the second sentence, this is because both of the sentences are referring to the same subject. We are replacing ‘she’ (the subject of the second sentence) with ‘who’.
The complete sentence will be: “Mrs. Kumar who has been a teacher for thirty years will now retire.”

(iv) We have had no respect for nature. Now we are suffering from the effects of global warming.
Here the first sentence implies the reason that has caused the effects mentioned in the second sentence. To connect the two sentences we will use the connecting word ‘having’. We put ‘having’ at the beginning of the sentence since that sentence states the reason or cause for the happening of the second sentence. Eliminate ‘now’ from the second sentence.
The complete sentence will be: “Having had no respect for nature, we are suffering from the effects of global warming.”

Note: We must be careful while joining the separate sentences because the final sentence is prone to grammatical errors. Subject-verb agreement should be maintained, the structure of the sentence must be correct and the final sentence should convey the correct meaning. In this way the minute errors can be avoided.