Conjunctions

Conjunctions connect ideas and lengthen sentences.

Coordinating conjunctions

• FANBOYS• FOR• AND • NOR• BUT • OR • YET • SO

COMPOUND SENENCES

• FOR AND SO SHOW CAUSE AND EFFECT• I’m dumping you, for you stopped taking

showers.• You stopped taking showers, so I’m dumping

you.• I broke up with you for throwing a cactus at

my guinea pig. (simple sentence)• Equal parts

But yet show contrast

• BUT AND YET SHOW CONTRAST• I like your dog, but it smells. • I like your dog, yet it slobbers.• I think you’re great, but I need time to be

alone.• I need to have time alone, yet I’m going to

keep you around until prom.•

AND- ADD MORE INFORMATION

• I like your dog, and I hope I can get one just like it.

• After school I will go to the dentist, and he will clean my yellow teeth.

• After school I’m going to eat a snack and do homework. (simple)

• After school I’m going to eat a snack, and I will do my homework. (compound)

Or shows choice

• OR-choice• I might buy a golden retriever, or I will steal a

Labrador from my neighbor’s yard.

Nor –two negative choices

• Nor- two negative choices.• Edwin doesn’t like homework, nor does he

like tests.• I don’t like homework, nor do I like people

stepping on my white shoes in the hall.• • •

Correlative conjuctions

• Correlative conjunctions: equal parts of a sentence

• Neither…nor• Either…or• Not only… but also• Not … but• But…and• I neither like to edit my essays, nor do I like to

write them.

CORRELATIVE CONJUCTIONS

• NOT …BUT• I am not going to school, but I will email you

my homework.

• Both…and• In both the movie and in the book, the

character kills her foe.

Correlative conjuctions

• Neither…nor• I neither like the homework, nor do I like the

teachers at CCMs

Subordinating conjucntions• Subordinating Conjunctions• A subordinating conjunction is a word that introduces an adverb clause. • • after

although• as if• as long as• as much as

as soon as• as though

becausebeforeby the timeeven ifeven thoughevery time

• howif

• if only• inasmuch as

in case• in order that

in the event thatjust in case

• lest• like•

Subordinating conjunctions• now that• once

only if• rather than

sinceso that

• than• that

the first timethough

• tillunlessuntilwhen whenever

• wherewhereas

• whereverwhether or notwhilewhile

•

Subordinating conjunctions often show cause/effect.

• Before you go, sign the log book. • He asked if he could leave early. • That is the place where he was last seen.

• By adding a subordinating conjunction, the independent clause becomes a dependent clause.

Conjunctive adverbs

• Need a semicolon and a comma.• It was raining; nevertheless, we went hiking.

• I do not like dog hair; therefore, I will not allow you have a dog.

Conjunctive adverbs

• Conjunctive Adverbs• Use conjunctive adverbs to:• indicate a connection between two independent

clauses in one sentence• link the ideas in two or more sentences• show relationships between ideas within an

independent clause.• It was raining; nevertheless, we went hiking.•

Conjunctive adverbs• Examples of Conjunctive Adverbs: • also • however • otherwise • consequently • indeed • similarly • finally • likewise • then • furthermore • moreover • therefore • hence • nevertheless • thus • nonetheless