Conjunctions Prepared by: Madaminova Kumush

Conjunctions

Prepared by:Madaminova Kumush

There are four categories of conjunctions:

• Coordinating conjunctions (or, and, but)
• Correlative conjunctions (and/or, not only/but also)
• Subordinating conjunctions (since, because, when)
• Conjunctive adverbs (however, therefore)

A coordinating conjunction is a word that joins two elements of equal grammatical rank and syntactic importance. They can join two verbs, two nouns, two adjectives, two phrases, or two independent clauses. The seven coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
Correlative conjunctions are used in pairs to join two equal clauses, phrases, or words that depend on each other to express a thought. Therefore, the pairs whether/or, both/and, either/or, etc. describe a correlation between two subjects, objects, or verbs..
A subordinating conjunction is a word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause. This word or phrase indicates that a clause has informative value to add to the sentence’s main idea, signaling a cause-and-effect relationship or a shift in time and place between the two clauses.Example:once,while,before,
after.

• Conjunctive adverbs are transition words or phrases. Conjunctive adverbs are also called connective adverbs or linking adverbs. Even though conjunctive adverbs are conjunctions, they are different from coordinating conjunctions, and they are not used in the same way.Samples:therefore,in addition,however,in fact ,additionally and so on.

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