SAILOR 1: We are never going to get up there, we need a conjunction. Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence. NARRATOR: Well you can’t just ...

The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

“Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on Lingua Franca “Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on ...

Khadija Attarabulsi from Libya writes: Would you please help me to learn and understand coordinating and subordinating conjunctions? I would be so grateful if you could explain them in full. Thank you ...

Is it correct to start a sentence with a conjunction? Here is a query from a reader of this column. Sanjay Saralaya writes, “Can one start a sentence with words and phrases such as as, because and due ...

In grammar, a conjunction is a connecting word. The most common, called "coordinating conjunctions," are "and," "but" and "or." Our old friend "as" also can serve as a conjunction, a type known as ...

Each item below offers a choice, in a pull-down menu, of four conjunctions for expressing various logical relationships. For each numbered item, select the conjunction that best fits in the sentence.