" Home" by, Anton Chekhov Focus Question #1 : Why does Yevgeny have conflicting feelings about the idea of punishing someone for smoking?

Because although he believes that his son should not smoke, he does not think that smoking is such a serious and hateful sin that the boy is severely punished.

Explanation:

"Home" by, Anton Chekhov is a story that addresses the relationship between father and son and their conversation about the dangers of stimulating smoking.

In this story, Yevgeny Petrovitch Bykovsk discovers, through the housekeeper, that his seven-year-old son was caught smoking cigars from his father's drawer. The father calls his son to talk about how this habit is wrong for such a young boy, but he has difficulties in punishing the child because he does not think he has done anything serious and hateful.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.  

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