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Identify the two Main clause and conjunction in each of the following sentence. Ramesh did not know Spanish, so he wanted a translator. - English

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Identify the two Main clause and conjunction in each of the following sentence.

Ramesh did not know Spanish, so he wanted a translator.

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Solution

Main clause:

  1. Ramesh did not know Spanish
  2. he wanted a translator

Conjunction:

so

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