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What is a Conjunction?
A conjunction is a joiner; a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.
There seem to be three (3) basic types of conjunctions.They are:
1) Coordinating conjunctions used to connect two independent clauses.
2) Subordinating conjunctions used to establish the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest ofthe sentence.
3) Correlative conjunctions which always travel in pairs, joining various sentence elements that should be treated as grammatically equal.
You can use a conjunction to link words,phrases, and clauses, as in the following example:
I ate the pizza and the pasta.
Call the movers when you are ready.
Coordinating Conjunctions
You use a coordinating conjunction("and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "so," or "yet") to join individual words, phrases, and independent clauses. Note that you can also use the conjunctions "but" and "for" as prepositions.
In the followingsentences, each of the highlighted words is a coordinating conjunction:
Lilacs and violets are usually purple.
In this example, the coordinating conjunction "and" links two nouns.
Thismovie is particularly interesting to feminist film theorists, for the screenplay was written by Mae West.
In this example, the coordinating conjunction "for" is used to link two independent clauses.Daniel's uncle claimed that he spent most of his youth dancing on rooftops and swallowing goldfish.
Here the coordinating conjunction "and" links two participle phrases ("dancing on rooftops"and "swallowing goldfish") which act as adverbs describing the verb "spends."
Subordinating Conjunctions
A subordinating conjunction introduces a dependent clause and indicates the nature of therelationship among the independent clause(s) and the dependent clause(s).
The most common subordinating conjunctions are "after," "although," "as," "because," "before," "how," "if," "once," "since,"...