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. I broke up with you for throwing a cactus at my guinea pig. (simple sentence) Equal parts

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.  

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)

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

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.  

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.

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.

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

Subordinating conjucntions Subordinating Conjunctions A subordinating conjunction is a word that introduces an adverb clause.    after although as if as long as as much as as soon as as though because before by the time even if even though every time how if if only inasmuch as in case in order that in the event that just in case lest like

Subordinating conjunctions now that once only if rather than since so that than that the first time though till unless until when  whenever where whereas wherever whether or not while while  

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.

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.

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.  

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