In the movie, the wizard reacts to the scarecrow's desire for a brain by explaining that the brain is actually a very mediocre commodity every living creature has one.
The above sentence is taken from an article published by a popular national English daily.
I call it a sentence because it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop. However, if one carefully examines it, one will discover that it actually contains two sentences (or two noun clauses) that need to be joined together by means of a conjunction.
Hence, the sentence in question should have been "In the movie, the wizard reacts to the scarecrow's desire for a brain by explaining that the brain is actually a very mediocre commodity and every living creature has one. "
Saturday, September 3, 2011
A conjunction is required to join two sentences (or clauses) together
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