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Paul Sparks,
Sino-Canadian International College, Guangxi University, Online English Lesson Plans, Lesson Material and Ideas
for Semester 2 Reading Lessons...
Lesson Objectives:
To understand how conjunctions are used in stories (and other readings).
Definition: A
conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a
sentence.
Coordinating Conjunctions: The simple, little
conjunctions are called coordinating conjunctions. Be careful of the words
then and now - neither is a coordinating conjunction.
These are the
coordinating conjunctions:
and, but, or, yet,
for, nor, so
When a coordinating
conjunction connects two clauses, it is often (but not always) accompanied
by a comma. When the two independent clauses are short a comma might not me
used.
Beginning a Sentence
with "And" or "But": There
is a belief that it is improper to begin a sentence with And, but this has
been by some authors. And is a useful aid to writers as the narrative
continues. The same is true with the conjunction but.
"Nor":
The conjunction NOR is not extinct, but it is not used nearly as often as
the other conjunctions, so it might feel a bit odd when nor does come up in
conversation or writing.
Example: "That is
neither what I said nor what I meant."
Subordinating Conjunctions: A Subordinating
Conjunction (sometimes called a dependent word or subordinator) comes at the
beginning of a Subordinate (or Dependent) Clause and establishes the
relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence. It
also turns the clause into something that depends on the rest of the
sentence for its meaning.
Common Subordinating
Conjunctions
after
although
as
as if
as long as
as though
because
before
even if
even though
if
if only
in order that
now that
once
rather than
since
so that
than
that
though
till
unless
until
when
whenever
where
whereas
wherever
while
Correlative
Conjunctions: Some conjunctions combine with
other words to form what are called correlative conjunctions. They always
travel in pairs, joining various sentence elements that should be treated as
grammatically equal.
Here is a brief list
of common correlative conjunctions:
both . . . and
not only . . . but also
not . . . but
either . . . or neither . . . nor
whether . . . or
as . . . as
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