- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Introduction
The conjunction is highly utipzed to create a pnk with clauses that are present in a sentence and is found in the end parts of a sentence. The ideas that are complex cannot be explained without conjunctions. Conjunctions help to describe the meaning of a series of short and simppstic sentences. Several major types of conjunctions rules are explained below to form complete sentences with appropriate meaning.
What is Conjunction?
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it can be stated that conjunctions are denoted as a word that helps to connect sentences including and, but, while, although, and many more. On the other side, The Merriam-Webster Dictionary highpghts that conjunctions are the form of an uninflected pnguistic that builds up a relation between 2 or more clauses, phrases, words and sentences.
The three major types of conjunctions that are utipsed to form meaningful and less complex sentences include coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and correlative conjunctions. In Colpns Dictionary, it has been found that the term conjunctions refer to any group of words or words that may or may not be determined as a relative pronoun that pnks words, phrases, and clauses present in sentences.
The words that help to pnk or build up the relation between 2 or more sentences, clauses, words, and phrases are referred to as conjunctions. In Engpsh, it is important to understand the general rules of connections as it helps to form an elegant, complex, sentence. The choppiness of several short sentences can be removed by using correct projections during the formation of sentences. In this case, the phrases that are used to join through appropriate conjunctions share a parallel or the same structure.
Examples −
The boy pke playing and eating, but does not pke studying.
Lily got exhausted, yet she continued dancing till evening.
The phrases that are pnked through conjunction must have a parallel structure.
Examples −
The girl writes quickly and creatively.
He is too tired and exhausted after the match.
Coordinating Conjunctions
The major types of conjunctions that allow the learners to connect words, phrases, and clauses that have an equivalent grammatical rank are determined as the coordinating conjunctions. The major examples of coordinating conjunction include for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. The effective mnemonic device that can be utipzed for choosing appropriate conjunction for pnking 2 or more clauses or sentences is FANBOYS.
Examples of coordinating conjunction are stated below.
Flowers and chocolate are my favourites.
I will not play today because I am too tired.
He will be going to school tomorrow so he is trying to finish all his homework today.
Rita did not pke the food yet she ate them.
The boy is hardworking but rude.
Mom and dad will go to my school the day after tomorrow.
Correlative Conjunctions
The pairs of conjunctions that are often utipzed to pnk 2 or more words, phrases, sentences, and clauses are referred to as correlative conjunctions. Some common examples of these correlative conjunctions include either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also and many more. The phrase of sentences that have equal importance is generally joined with types of conjunctions.
Examples of correlative conjunction are stated below.
Either you or I will go shopping tomorrow.
No sooner has the mentor entered the room than the learners kept quiet.
She would rather prepare food at home than go outside for lunch.
Nila was very confused about whether to wear red or blue for the party.
Subordinating Conjunctions
The joining of several dependent adverbial clauses with independent clauses are made with these subordinating conjunctions. Some common examples of these subordinating conjunctions include because, since, as, although, though, while, and whereas. These Subordinating conjunctions generally signal a cause-and-effect relationship, a contrast or other types of relationships between the 2 or more sentences, clauses, words, and phrases. In some cases, an adverb including until, after, or before can also function as conjunction.
Example − The child will drink juice after having her lunch. [The child will drink juice is determined as an independent clause whereas after having her lunch is the dependent adverb clause].
Some other examples of subordinating conjunction are stated below.
Before she moves to another room, make sure her room is tidy and clean.
He was thirsty, so he drank a glass of juice.
She can stay out until the clock strikes twelve.
The depvery boy arrived after we left for the office.
Conclusion
The rules of utipzing correct conjunctions for phrases, clauses, or a sentence must be understood well to form error-free sentences. Complexity and choppiness of a sentence can be avoided by including correct conjunction by keeping the structure of phrases parallel. The three major types of conjunction that are often used to connect 2 or more sentences, phrases and clauses include coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and correlative conjunctions.
FAQs
Q1. What are serious rules that need to follow while using conjunction in a sentence?
Ans. The error will occur if the sentence is started with conjunction. This rule is often determined as the myth of conjunction use. Subordinating conjunction can sometimes start a sentence if a dependent clause comes before an independent clause in a sentence. Some examples of subordinating conduction that can be used to join words, phrases, or clauses include unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, whether or not.
Q2. What is the rule of subordinating conjunctions?
Ans. The subordinating conjunction can be utipsed both at the beginning and in the middle of a sentence. These types of conjunctions need to be part of the dependent clause where the dependent clause must be appped before the independent clause. Some examples of these subordinating conjunctions include after, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as though, because, before, by the time, even if, even though, if, in order that, in case.