Conjunctions

• Grammar is a set of rules that shows how words are used in a language
• Grammar defines the purpose of conjunctions and shows how they work in sentences
• Conjunctions connect words, phrases, or clauses together within a sentence
• ‘for’, ‘and’, ‘nor’, ‘but’, ‘or’, ‘yet’, ‘so’ (FANBOYS) are coordinating conjunctions which join two independent clauses together – ‘You like eating apples and you like eating bananas’
• ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘when’, ‘while’, ‘since’, ‘after’, ‘although’ are subordinating conjunctions which join an independent clause to a dependent clause – ‘You like eating apples because they are crunchy’.