Conjunctions

• Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses together.
• three types of conjunctions?

  coordinating, correlative, subordinating
• it allows you to join words, phrases, and clauses of equal grammatical rank in a sentence.

  coordinating
• coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
• they are pairs of conjunctions that work together

  correlative conjunctions
• they join independent and dependent clauses. A subordinating conjunction can signal a cause-and-effect relationship, a contrast, or some other kind of relationship between the clauses


  subordinating conjunctions
• Coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so;

  Correlative conjunctions: either/or, neither/nor, and not only/but also.

  Subordinating conjunctions: because, since, as, although, though, while, and whereas.
• She likes chocolate pudding, lemon meringue pie, and black forest cake.

  , and
• Do you want to sit in the chair or on the sofa?

  or
• We waited, but the bus never came.

  but
• I will be quiet, so you can finish your homework

  so
• The little girl was tired, yet she did not want to go to bed

  yet
• John stayed inside at recess, so he could work on his project.

  so
• The soup tastes good, but it could be warmer

  but
• Gerry plays hockey in the winter and soccer in the summer

  and
• It was raining, so we took the bus home

  so
• Finish your vegetables, or you will not have desser

  or
• He knew the answer, but he was too shy to raise his hand.

  but
• coordinating conjunctions?

  for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so