Grammar through Text News Group

 Model: Definition of Rules  Examples from News  Focus: The Parts of Speech  Coordinating Conjunctions  Texts: Short Stories from News  Learner’s Level: Junior High School

A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence. The coordinating conjunctions are as follows:. It may help you remember these conjunctions by recalling that they all in 2 or 3 letters. Also, remember the acronym  FANBOYS: For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So. Coordinating Conjunctions andbutoryetfornorso

for: because (not used at the beginning of a sentence)  We listen eagerly, for he brings news of our families.  Prepare to all right, for we are almost there. and: connecting two sentences or elements with similar ideas; the sentences or elements being positive or negative  She doesn't like rock music, and he doesn't like art.  My roommate is an art student, and her boyfriend plays in a rock band.  He loves bread and butter.

nor: common using as the little brother in the correlative pair, neither-nor  He is neither sane nor brilliant.  That is neither what I said nor what I meant. but: connecting two sentences or elements with contrasting or opposite ideas  She likes classical music, but she doesn't like rock.  She also likes country music, but he hates it.  He is not a poet but a novelist.

or: connecting two sentences or elements that express alternatives or choices  Will you have tea or coffee?  Every Friday night, they go to a classical, or they visit and art gallery. yet: but at the same time; nevertheless  She trained hard all year yet still failed to reach her best from. so: connecting a reason and a result Reason Result They both like jazz so they go to concerts together. He works every night so they don’t go out very often. He can’t practice at home, so he uses hers.

Examples from News:  The radio technology allows them to quickly synchronize stored addresses with their PC, up and download images without paying expensive MMS fees, or for easy use of the cell phone as a modem for a laptop.  Remarkably, suicide attempts are more frequent among women than man, but since men are usually more determined to succeed when feeling suicidal, the death rate for men who attempt suicide is twice what it is for women.

 PDA connection cables, printer cables, keyboard and mouse cables, as well as those of stereo systems and their speakers can become an impractical and difficult to conceal mass of wires. Yet the whole problem can quickly disappear in favor of Bluetooth’s wireless transfer technology.  The legislature began a one-month recess on Nov. 10 in preparation for the Dec. 11 legislative elections, so the DPP made one last effort to have the bill brought to the floor in the Procedure Committee in the legislature before the break.

Sources:   Student Post Group Members: Allison Brian Demon Joe Thank you!!! PowerPoint by Allison