A Video Summary About The Conjunctions
The video is a sample from one of the Live-English Club sessions.
Coordinating conjunctions
These are small words that allow us to connect to separate sentences together to
form a compound sentence.
For example
David is an accountant. He works for one of the largest accounting firms in Europe.
David is an accountant, AND he works for one of the largest accounting firms in Europe.
There are SEVEN coordinating conjunctions
FOR – to introduce a reason for something.
AND – to connect similar ideas.
NOR – connects additional negative idea. Remember the subject and verb is
inverted after the conjunction e.g. David is not thirsty, not is he hungry
BUT – to join two contrasting ideas, opposites.
OR – to introduce an alternative idea.
YET – to join two contrasting ideas, opposites.
SO – to introduce a consequence/ result.
Remember FANBOYS
Punctuation – always use a comma before the conjunction if it is separating two separate ideas i.e., there is a subject and verb before and after the conjunction.
Subordinating conjunctions
These are words or phrases that link a dependent clause (does not make any sense by its own) to an independent clause.
These words allow us to give more informative value to the main idea of the independent clause.
They can be used to indicate cause-and-effect relationship e.g. because, due to, since, as a result.
They can also indicate a change in time or place between the two clauses e.g. before, after, while.
Exercises about Conjunctions
Exercise 1: Select the correct coordinating conjugation
Exercise 2: Select the correct subordinating conjugation
Exercise 3: Select the correct adverbial conjunction