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Conjunctions and
Interjections
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Conjunctions
S Conjunctions: a word that connects words, phrases (groups
of words that do not contain both a subject and a verb), or
clauses (groups of words that do contain subjects and verbs)
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Coordinating Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions
Correlative Conjunctions
Conjunctive Adverbs
Coordinating Conjunctions
S Coordinating Conjunctions: a conjunction to connect words,
phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank together
S FANBOYS
S For (because)
S And
S Nor
S But
S Or
S Yet
S So
Subordinating Conjunctions
S Subordinating Conjunctions: join an adverb clause to the main
clause of a sentence
S Common Subordinating Conjunctions
S After
S If
S Until
S Although
S Once
S When, whenever
S Because
*note: many subordinating conjunctions can also be
used as a preposition;
-when followed by a noun as the object, the
word is a preposition;
-when followed by a subject and verb, the word
is a subordinating conjunction
Correlative Conjunction
S Correlative Conjunction: conjunctions that
occur in pairs
S both/and;
S either/or;
S neither/nor;
S not only/but also;
S and whether/or
Conjunctive Adverbs
S Conjunctive Adverbs: adverbs that do the work of conjunctions by
following a semicolon that joins two complete sentences; hybrids;
transitions
S Accordingly
S In conclusion
S Nonetheless
S finally,
S Instead
S Still
S Then
Interjection
S Interjection: a word used to express emotion at a low,
moderate or high level
S Well
S Wow
S Cool
S Zoink
S Jinkies