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Conjunctions

•A conjunction is a word that joins words or groups of words.

Conjunctions may join:

• Single words• Groups of words

Examples: hot or cold;through the woods and across the river

Conjunctions may also join sentences.

• The teacher graded the papers, and then she returned them to the students.

• You may take the quiz now, or you may take it after school.

Types of Conjunctions

•Coordinating

•Correlative

•Subordinating

Coordinating Conjunctions are used in compound

sentences.

Common Coordinating Conjunctions are:

•And ForBut So

•Or Yet•Nor

Correlative Conjunctions are always found in pairs.

Common Correlative conjunctions are:

•Neither…nor•Either…or•Both…and•Not only…but also

Subordinate conjunctions are used in

complex sentences.

Subordinating Conjunctions:• After because• Although before• As if• As if in order that• Long as since• As soon as so that• As though than

• Though where• Unless Wherever• Until While• When• whenever

Find the conjunctions:

• We listened to the tape and took notes.

• Mrs. Musynske is both a teacher and a moderator of a club.

• Either study for the exam or take the consequences!

Interjections• An interjection is a word that

shows emotion and is not related to any other word in the sentence.

Oh! You surprised me!Bah Humbug! Expresses how Scrooge feels about Christmas.

• Wow! I won the lottery!

• Oh, I don’t know about that.

• I don't know what the heck you're talking about.

• No, you shouldn't have done that.

• Ouch, that hurt!

Find the interjection

Find the interjections

• Oh no, I forgot that the exam was today.

• Hey! Put that down!

• I heard one guy say to another guy, "He has a new car, eh?"

• I don't know about you but, good lord, I think taxes are too high!