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Conjunctions. Conjunctions connect ideas and lengthen sentences. Coordinating conjunctions. FANBOYS FOR AND NOR BUT OR YET SO. COMPOUND SENENCES. FOR AND SO SHOW CAUSE AND EFFECT I’m dumping you , for you stopped taking showers. You stopped taking showers, so I’m dumping you.

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Conjunctions

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  1. Conjunctions Conjunctions connect ideas and lengthen sentences.

  2. Coordinating conjunctions • FANBOYS • FOR • AND • NOR • BUT • OR • YET • SO

  3. COMPOUND SENENCES • FOR AND SO SHOW CAUSE AND EFFECT • I’m dumping you, for you stopped taking showers. • You stopped taking showers, so I’m dumping you. • I broke up with you for throwing a cactus at my guinea pig. (simple sentence) • Equal parts

  4. But yet show contrast • BUT AND YET SHOW CONTRAST • I like your dog, but it smells. • I like your dog, yet it slobbers. • I think you’re great, but I need time to be alone. • I need to have time alone, yet I’m going to keep you around until prom.

  5. AND- ADD MORE INFORMATION • I like your dog, and I hope I can get one just like it. • After school I will go to the dentist, and he will clean my yellow teeth. • After school I’m going to eat a snack and do homework. (simple) • After school I’m going to eat a snack, and I will do my homework. (compound)

  6. Or shows choice • OR-choice • I might buy a golden retriever, or I will steal a Labrador from my neighbor’s yard.

  7. Nor –two negative choices • Nor- two negative choices. • Edwin doesn’t like homework, nor does he like tests. • I don’t like homework, nor do I like people stepping on my white shoes in the hall.

  8. Correlative conjuctions • Correlative conjunctions: equal parts of a sentence • Neither…nor • Either…or • Not only… but also • Not … but • But…and • I neither like to edit my essays, nor do I like to write them.

  9. CORRELATIVE CONJUCTIONS • NOT …BUT • I am not going to school, but I will email you my homework. • Both…and • In both the movie and in the book, the character kills her foe.

  10. Correlative conjuctions • Neither…nor • I neither like the homework, nor do I like the teachers at CCMs

  11. Subordinating conjucntions • Subordinating Conjunctions • A subordinating conjunction is a word that introduces an adverb clause.  • afteralthough • as if • as long as • as much asas soon as • as thoughbecausebeforeby the timeeven ifeven thoughevery time • howif • if only • inasmuch asin case • in order thatin the event thatjust in case • lest • like

  12. Subordinating conjunctions • now that • onceonly if • rather thansinceso that • than • that the first timethough • tillunlessuntilwhen whenever • wherewhereas • whereverwhether or notwhilewhile

  13. Subordinating conjunctions often show cause/effect. • Before you go, sign the log book. • He asked if he could leave early. • That is the place where he was last seen. • By adding a subordinating conjunction, the independent clause becomes a dependent clause.

  14. Conjunctive adverbs • Need a semicolon and a comma. • It was raining; nevertheless, we went hiking. • I do not like dog hair; therefore, I will not allow you have a dog.

  15. Conjunctive adverbs • Conjunctive Adverbs • Use conjunctive adverbs to: • indicate a connection between two independent clauses in one sentence • link the ideas in two or more sentences • show relationships between ideas within an independent clause. • It was raining; nevertheless, we went hiking.

  16. Conjunctive adverbs • Examples of Conjunctive Adverbs: • also • however • otherwise • consequently • indeed • similarly • finally • likewise • then • furthermore • moreover • therefore • hence • nevertheless • thus • nonetheless

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