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In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated conj or cnj) is a

part of speech that connects two words, sentences,


phrases or clauses together. A discourse connective is a
conjunction joining sentences. This definition may overlap
with that of other parts of speech, so what constitutes a
"conjunction" must be defined for each language. In
general, a conjunction is an invariable grammatical
particle, and it may or may not stand between the items it
conjoins.
The definition may also be extended to idiomatic phrases
that behave as a unit with the same single-word
conjunction.
What is a conjunction?

Coordinating conjunctions

Correlative conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions
Types of conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions, also called coordinators, are
conjunctions that join two or more items of equal
syntactic importance, such as words, main clauses, or
sentences. In English the mnemonic acronym FANBOYS
can be used to remember the coordinators for, and, nor,
but, or, yet, and so.These are not the only coordinating
conjunctions; various others are used, including"and nor"
(British), "but nor" (British), "or nor" (British), "neither"
("They don't gamble; neither do they smoke"), "no more"
("They don't gamble; no more do they smoke"), and "only"
("I would go, only I don't have time").
Here are some examples of coordinating conjunctions in
English and what they do:
Coordinating conjunction

Examples
or
presents an alternative item
or idea ("Every day they
gamble or they smoke.").
yet
presents a contrast or
exception ("They gamble,
yet they don't smoke.").
so
presents a consequence ("He
gambled well last night so
he smoked a cigar to
celebrate.").
for
presents a reason ("He is
gambling with his health, for he
has been smoking far too long.").
and
presents non-contrasting item(s)
or idea(s) ("They gamble, and
they smoke.").
nor
presents a non-contrasting
negative idea ("They do not
gamble nor do they smoke.").
but
presents a contrast or exception
("They gamble, but they don't
smoke.").

Correlative conjunctions work in pairs to join words and
groups of words of equal weight in a sentence. There are six
different pairs of correlative conjunctions:

either...or
not only...but (also)
neither...nor (or increasingly neither...or)
both...and
whether...or
just as...so

Correlative conjunctions

You either do your work or prepare for a trip to the
office.
Not only is he handsome, but he is also brilliant.
Neither the basketball team nor the football team is
doing well.
Both the cross country team and the swimming team
are doing well.
Whether you stay or you go, it's your decision.
Just as Aussies love Aussie rules football, so many
Canadians love ice hockey.
Examples

Subordinating conjunctions, also called subordinators, are
helpful in writing paragraphs with an independent clause
and a dependent clause. The most common subordinating
conjunctions in the English language include after,
although, as, as far as, as if, as long as, as soon as, as
though, because, before, if, in order that, since, so, so
that, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever,
where, where as, wherever, and while. Complementizers
can be considered to be special subordinating
conjunctions that introduce complement clauses (e.g., "I
wonder whether he'll be late. I hope that he'll be on
time"). Some subordinating conjunctions (until and
while), when used to introduce a phrase instead of a full
clause, become prepositions with identical meanings.
Subordinating conjunctions

In many verb-final languages, subordinate clauses must precede
the main clause on which they depend. The equivalents to the
subordinating conjunctions of non-verb-final languages such as
English are either
clause-final conjunctions (e.g., in Japanese), or
suffixes attached to the verb and not separate words[6]
Such languages in fact often lack conjunctions as a part of speech
because:
the form of the verb used is formally nominalised and cannot occur
in an independent clause
the clause-final conjunction or suffix attached to the verb is actually
formally a marker of case and is also used on nouns to indicate
certain functions. In this sense, the subordinate clauses of these
languages have much in common with postpositional phrases.

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