Conjunctions do you know what ‘fanboys’ is? Discuss about grammatical function of conjunctions

CONJUNCTIONS

Do you know what ‘FANBOYS’ is? Discuss about grammatical function of conjunctions.

If you want to learn more about conjunctions, you may read the information below.

Conjunction words are linking devices between sentences or clauses in a text. Unlike the other grammatical devices, conjunctions express the ‘logical-semantic’ relation between sentences rather than between words and structures. In other words, they structure the text in a certain logical order that is meaningful to the reader or listener.
Conjunctions are divided into four types:
- Additive - Additive conjunctions connect units that share semantic similarity. Examples of additive conjunctions are, and, likewise, furthermore, in addition, etc.
- Adversative - Adversative conjunctions are used to express contrasting results or opinions. This type of conjunction is expressed by words such as, but, however, in contrast, whereas, etc
- Causal - Causal conjunctions introduce results, reasons, or purposes. They are characterized by the use of items such as, so, thus, therefore, because, etc.
- Temporal - Temporal conjunctions express the time order of events such as, finally, then, soon, at the same time, etc.
For the whole day, he climbed up the steep mountainside, almost without stopping.
a. And in all this time, he met no one. (additive)
b. Yet he hardly a ware of being tired. (adversative)
c. So by nighttime the valley was far below him (casual)
d. Then, as dusk fell, he sat down to rest. (temporal)

Discover the functions of conjunctions in the given sentences. Write analysis and identify the genre of tthem. (See the section ‘Key to activities’)

1. ‘… I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you’d have deserved it …’
2. ‘I said you looked like an egg, sir,’ Alice gently explained. ‘And some eggs are very pretty, you know,’ she added…
3. Was she in a shop? And was that really – was it really a sheep that was sitting on the other side of the counter?
4. ‘… Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!’ And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.
5. All the figures were correct; they’d been checked. Yet the total came out wrong.
6. All this time Tweedledee, was trying his best to fold up the umbrella with himself in it … But he couldn’t quite succeed, …
7. … it swept her straight off the seat, and down among the heap of rushes. However, she wasn’t a bit hurt, and was soon up again.
8. ‘I like the Walrus best,’ said Alice: because, you see he was a little sorry for the poor oysters’ -‘He ate more than the Carpenter though’, said Tweedledee.
9. But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. 'It always happens,' said the Gnat. After this, Alice was silent for a minute or two, pondering.
10. ... she heard a little shrick and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort. Next came an angry voice Where are you?' And then a voice she had never heard before ... the Rabbit's 'Pat! Pat!
11. Alice began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she set to work nibbling at the mushroom... till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and then – she found herself at last in the beautiful garden.
12. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real left behind. 'So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old one, and blazing away as brightly as the one she had room,' thought Alice.
13. . . . she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she got to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
14. ... she wouldn't have heard it at all, if it hadn't come quite close to her car. The consequence of this was that it tickled her ear very much, and quite took off her thoughts from the little creature.
15. She failed. However, she's tried her best.
16. He's not exactly good-looking. But he's got brains.
17. 'I see you're admiring my little box,' the Knight said in a friendly tone. ..
18. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain can't get in.' 'But the things can get out,' Alice gently remarked.