Conjunctions

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Conjunctions
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What are those crazy conjunctions?
Some words are satisfied spending an evening at
home, sitting alone by themselves. Maybe eating
pizza and watching friends. Others aren't happy
unless they're out on the town, mixing it up with
other words they're joiners and they just can't
help themselves. A conjunction is a joiner, or a
word that connects parts of a sentence.
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Basic conjunctions

• There are a couple of simple, more common
  conjunctions
• They are known as coordinating conjunctions
• They areand, or, but, yet, for, nor, so

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When to use them

• The best time to use a conjunction is when
  connecting words in a sentence..
• Coordinating conjunctions may join single words,
  or they may join groups of words, but they must
  always join similar elements ex. Subject and
  subject, verb phrase and verb phrase, sentence
  and sentence.

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Examples of conjunctions

• This power point is awsome and it deserves an A.
• And is the coordinative conjunction, connecting
  the sentence
• This is a useful rule, but difficult to remember.
• Here, but is the conjunction

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A little something to help with remembering
To help remember the 7 basic coordinating
conjunctions think of the acronym
Fanboys F-for A-and N-nor B-but O-or Y-yet S-s
o
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