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Identify the two Main clause and conjunction in each of the following sentence. He is a good actor, still he is not popular.

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

He is a good actor, still he is not popular.

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Solution

Main clause:

  1. He is a good actor
  2. he is not popular

Conjunction:

still

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