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Mastering Conjunctions for Clear Communication

Learn how to enunciate words correctly, provoke emotions through language, and issue pronouncements with confidence. Explore the power of invoking support, revoking decisions, and speaking like a pro. Understand the impact of dictums on official orders and indictments. Master the usage of conjunctions and correlative pairs for effective communication.

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Mastering Conjunctions for Clear Communication

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  1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit 2

  2. NUNC/NOUNC “to announce” • Enunciate: verb • To pronounce or articulate • The speaker at graduation enunciated each student’s name correctly. • Renounce: verb • To reject by declaration • The defendant renounced the judge’s guilty verdict.

  3. Pronouncement: noun • An official announcement • Woodbridge Township made a pronouncement that bullying will not be tolerated.

  4. VOC/VOK “to call” • Invoke: verb • To call on for support • Eli Manning invoked Coach Coughlin for help on offensive plays. • Provocative: adjective • Causing disturbance or excitement • The provocative commercial for the new Ford Mustang was pulled from television.

  5. Revoke: verb • To make invalid; deactivate • If you get too many points while driving, your license will be revoked.

  6. FA “to speak” • Ineffable: adjective • Indescribable • The landscape on top of the mountain was ineffable, too beautiful for words. • Infantile: adjective • Childish; immature • The rude behavior between the two boys was infantile and immature.

  7. Affable: adjective • Easy to converse with; friendly • Sandy Cheeks is an affable character.

  8. DIC/DICT “to say, to tell” • Edict: Noun • An official order • The mayor ordered an edict to help Hurricane Irene victims whose homes flooded. • Indict: Verb • To charge with a crime; accuse • The criminal was indicted on three counts of burglary.

  9. Dictum: noun • A formal or authoritative statement • Congress declared a dictum on the status of the war in Afghanistan.

  10. Conjunctions • A word that joins two parts of a sentence • and • but • or • nor • for • yet • so • although • because • since • unless

  11. Correlative Conjunctions Correlative conjunctions are tag-team conjunctions. They come in pairs, and you have to use both of them in different places in a sentence to make them work. • both/andEx: I’ll have both the cheesecake and the frozen hot chocolate. • whether/orEx:I didn’t know whether you’d want the cheesecake or the frozen hot chocolate, so I got you both. • either/orEx: I want either the cheesecake or the frozen hot chocolate. • neither/norEx: Oh, you want neither the cheesecake nor the frozen hot chocolate? No problem. • not/but not only/but alsoEx: I see you’re in the mood not for dessert but appetizers. Ex: I’ll eat them both - not only the cheesecake but also the frozen hot chocolate.

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