Get ready for an intense week full of exams and lot of work.
Conjunctions are words which connect sentences or groups of words. Some learners know them as connectors or joining words.
One type of conjunction is the coordinating conjunction, which gives equal importance to the words or sentences that it connects.
There are seven coordinating conjunctions: but, or, so, and, yet, for, nor.
- I like coffee, but my wife prefers tea.
- Would you prefer coffee or tea?
- I’ve drunk six cups of coffee today, so I’ve got a headache.
- I take milk and sugar in my tea.
- He’s seventy-two, yet he still swims, runs and plays football regularly.
- She must have been very hungry, for she ate everything immediately.
- Switzerland is not in the European Union, nor is it a member of NATO.
- but-pero, or-o, so-entonces, and-y, yet-aunque, for-para, nor-ni.
