When a coordinating conjunction joins independent clauses, it is always correct to place a comma before the conjunction:
- I like [tea] and [coffee].
- [Ramani likes tea], but Amali likes coffee].
I want to work as an interpreter in the future, so I am studying Russian at university.
කෙටි සරළ වාක්‍යංශ සම්බන්ධ කිරීමේදී කොමාව මග හෑරිය හැක.
However, if the independent clauses are short and well-balanced, a comma is not really essential:
She is kind so she helps people.
පද ලැයිස්තුවක අවසාන පදය සමග භාවිතා කරන විට අවසාන කොමාව විකල්ප වේ.
When "and" is used with the last word of a list, a comma is optional:
He plays cricket, Rugger, Hokey, and Badminton.
He plays cricket, Rugger, Hokey and Badminton.
The 7 coordinating conjunctions are short, simple words. They have only two or three letters. There's an easy way to remember them - their initials spell:
F
A
N
B
O
Y
S
For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So
The majority of conjunctions are "subordinating conjunctions".
බොහෝ සමුච්ච නිපාත උපකාරක නිපාත වේ.
Common subordinating conjunctions are:
after පසුව
although එසේ උවද
as එවිට/එලෙස
because එමනිසා
before පෙර
how කෙසේද
if නම්
once වරක්
since සිට
than වඩා
that එම
though එසේ වුවද
till තුරු
until වනතුරු
when විට
where කොහිද
whether දෙකින් කෝක නමුත්
while වනතුරු
| main or independent clause ප්‍රධාන හෝ ස්වාධීන වාක්‍යංශය | subordinate or dependent clause උපකාරක හෝ රඳා පවතින වාක්‍යංශය | |
| Poornima went swimming | although | it was raining. |
| subordinating conjunction උපකාරක සමුචිචිත නිපාතය | ||
එය මෙලෙසද ලිවිය හැක
Although it was raining, Ram went swimming
සමුච්ච නිපාත තුන් ආකාරය
We can consider conjunctions from three aspects.
Single Word තනි වචනයේ සමුච්ච නිපාත
We can consider conjunctions from three aspects.
Single Word තනි වචනයේ සමුච්ච නිපාත
and, but, because, although
Compound සංයුක්ත සමුච්ච නිපාත
provided that, as long as, in order that
Correlative සහසම්බන්ධක සමුච්ච නිපාත
so...that (surrounding an adverb or adjective)
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