Remember when adding conjunction, the balance of the sentence should be correct. For example, if we use ‘not only – but also’, let me show you- Not onlyhe beat me but alsoabused me. Here ‘but also’ is placed before the verb abused, so if you adding conjunction ‘not only’, it should add before the verb ‘beat’, not before a subject. So here the correct form is – He not onlybeat me but also abused me. I Samuel 4:20 – As she was dying the women attending her said, ‘Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.’ But she did not respond or pay any attention.’

Acts 20:10 – Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms round him. ‘Don’t be alarmed,’ he said, ‘He’s alive!’ Another problem with this list is that some instances are not God speaking, but somebody else telling somebody not to fear. This can still be encouraging, but there are enough passages in here that make me wonder. E.g. Joseph telling his brothers not to be afraid when he is in fact testing them. Or Jael falsely reassuring Sisera. It is unclear to me how this is supposed to encourage the believer today (these passages still do have value for discussing fear, but it wasn’t what I was expecting to find in such a list). Or 1 Sam. 28:13, where Saul, in clear disobedience to the Lord, tells the witch of Endor not to be afraid as she acts as a medium. Or Mal. 3:5, where those who “do not fear” the Lord will be put on trial. Daniel 10:12 – Then he continued, ‘Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.’Cragan, John F., and Donald C. Shields. Applied Communication Research: A Dramatistic Approach. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1981.

Psalm 56: 3-4 – When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise – in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? Deuteronomy 1:21 – See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. John 16:33 – ‘I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.’ Use past conditional tense(were) after ‘if’/ ‘as’. For example, He behaves as if he wasa king (was must be replaced by were).

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We cannot use ‘both’ in a negative sentence, for example, if you write both Ram and Shyam did not go. It is wrong, you should write ‘ NeitherRam norShyam went. The islanders, the article said, had been looking for a ‘phone service for 20 years. But it was only when English artist Elwyn Dunkerly went to live on the mainland across from the island that they finally succeeded in getting one. If there is ‘other’ in a sentence than the conjunction is we use is ‘that’, But if ‘none’ or ‘nothing’ is present in a sentencethe conjunction is ‘but’ (then it uses as a preposition).