What is Conjunction?
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Conjunction and Compounding
Hula… Today, Mr. Enjoy wants to tell you about Conjunction and Compounding. Let’s start the killing!
“Conjunction is a word that connects other words, phrases, or sentences”
The words includes and, but, or, because. A conjunction joins two words, phrases or sentences together. Here are the examples:
But, so, and, because, or
And here are some characteristics of Conjunctions:
· Conjunction is an uninfluenced function word that serves to conjoin words, or phrases, clauses or sentences.
· Conjunction is a part of speech that connects two words, phrases, or clauses together.
· Conjunction mostly derived from other parts of speech, particularly prepositions.
· Conjunction is a small class of words.
· Conjunction has function as non-movable structure words that join such units as parts of speech, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
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There are two types of conjunctions:
a) Coordinate Conjunctions
· The coordinate conjunctions join structural units that are equal grammatically. A Coordinate conjunction is grammatically free.
· A subordinate conjunction introduces a clause that depends on a main or independent clause. The subordinate conjunction is grammatically part of the clause it introduces
· Subordinate conjunctions range in meanings from those having strong semantic content such as time, place, cause, etc. to those having purely structural meaning: that, whether, etc.
· Compounding is most effective for two or three items only.
· When coordinate conjunctions are used, the expectation is that each of the items joined will have the same grammatical form, e.g.:
a. Mary is tall, with blond hair, and who has blue eyes. (Bad sentence)
b. Mary is tall, blond, and blue-eyed. (Good sentence)
· Items that are grammatically parallel should also be logically parallel, e.g.:
a. The boy was tall, dark, and very methodical.
b. Mr. Jones is our neighbor and he has a large house (Mr. Jones, our neighbor, has a large house)
· At times, items in a coordinate series can be listed in random order, e.g.:
a. We wish to order some paper, pencils, and pens.
· At other times, the coordinate items must be arranged according to some logical principles, e.g. climatic order, special order, temporal order, an order according to size, etc.)
Forms of Subordinate Conjunctions:
1. Single-word subordinate conjunctions: after although, if, once, since, that, till, unless, etc.
2. Correlative (split) subordinate conjunctions: not only …. but also, both …. and, either …. or, neither …. nor.
3. Two/three-word (phrasal) subordinate conjunctions: so that, provided that, as far as, in case, as if, in spite of, as long as, etc.
See you in the next Post! ^_^
Mr. Enjoy
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