CONJUNCTIONS

• A Conjunction is a word used to join words or groups of words.• Different kinds of conjunctions have

different jobs.• There are three main types of conjunctions: • Coordinating Conjunctions, • Correlative Conjunctions, • and Subordinating Conjunctions.

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

• Coordinating conjunctions can join single words or groups of words. They always connect items of the same kind.• Guards and forwards (two nouns)• On land or at sea (two prepositional phrases)• Judy wrote the number down, but she lost it (two

complete ideas)

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

• The words that are being connected by a coordinating conjunction can be subjects, objects, predicates, or any other sentence part, so long as they are the same thing.• Some common coordinating conjunctions are:

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS)

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

• “and” connects similar things and ideas• “but” + “yet” connect contrasting things and

ideas• “or” + “nor” introduce a choice

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

• Meriwether Lewis and John Clark led an expedition to the West.• The United States owned the Louisiana Territory

but knew little about it.• No one had followed the Missouri or the Columbia

rivers to their source.

CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS

• Correlative conjunctions are pairs of conjunctions that connect words used in the same way.• Common ones are: both/and, either/or,

neither/nor, not only/but also, whether/or• Both Lewis and Clark had served in the U.S. Army.

CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS

• Like the coordinating conjunction, correlative conjunctions also connect items of the same kind. However, unlike coordinating conjunctions, the correlative conjunctions are ALWAYS used in pairs.

CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS

• Both Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler were exceptional boxers.• We want to go not only to Kathmandu but also

to Pokhara.• Either we will succeed this time, or we will try

again.

PRACTICE (E.C.)OOPS: DIRECTION CHANGE

• SINGLE UNDERLINE COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS (FANBOYS)

• DOUBLE UNDERLINE CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS (THE ONES THAT WORK IN PAIRS)