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Conjunctions

Conjunctions. See text pages 163 – 165 for additional information. Conjunction. A conjunction is a word which joins words or groups of words. Three types of conjunctions. Coordinating Correlative Subordinating. Coordinating conjunction. Connects a word to a word

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Conjunctions

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  1. Conjunctions See text pages 163 – 165 for additional information

  2. Conjunction • A conjunction is a word which joins words or groups of words.

  3. Three types of conjunctions • Coordinating • Correlative • Subordinating

  4. Coordinating conjunction • Connects a word to a word • Connects a phrase to a phrase • Connects clauses to a clause • Words, phrases, or clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction must be equal or of the same type.

  5. Coordinating conjunction • Examples: • and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet • A puffer rarely worries about calories or about eating. • See page 578/164 for more information.

  6. Correlative conjunctions • Pairs of connecting words • Examples: • Either/or; neither/nor; not only/but also; both/and; whether/or; just/as; just/so; as/so • Neither pickles nor sauerkraut should be put on a chocolate sundae.

  7. Subordinating conjunctions • Connects two clauses which are not equally important. • Connects a dependent clause to an independent clause in order to complete the meaning of the dependent clause.

  8. Subordinating conjunctions • Examples: • after, although, as, as if, as long as, as though, because, before, if, in order that, provided that, since, so, so that, that, though, till, unless, until, when, where, whereas, while • A chocolate sundae tastes best when it is topped with chopped nuts.

  9. Punctuation for conjunctions • A comma comes before a conjunction connecting two sentences. • Example: • Mark has caught seven fish, but Gregg has caught only two.

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