Conjunctions

Conjunctions

01

What is a conjunction?

What is a conjunction?

Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses. I love baking and decorating cakes, but I don't like cleaning the kitchen afterward.

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Conjunctions

Correlative

Coordinating

Subordinating

afteralthoughasas far asas long asbecauseeven ifwhen

sinceso than unless until where whilewhenever

either.....ornot only...butboth..andas...asrather...thanno sooner...neither...nor

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

02

Polysyndeton

Polysyndeton

Polysyndeton is the use of repeated conjunctions between words or clauses in a sentence to emphasize what’s being said. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” —US Postal Service motto

Polysyndeton in literature

“If there be cords, or knives, or poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I’ll not endure it.” —William Shakespeare, Othello

“There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway. Little tumuli of oyster shells in the oyster season, and of lobster shells in the lobster season, and of broken crockery and faded cabbage leaves in all seasons, encroached upon its high places.” —Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

Asyndeton

Polysyndeton

Omits conjunctions to change tone of voice or emphasize what´s bieng said.

Repeats conjunction in a sentence or clause to create emphasis or convey feelings.

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Practice

Separate conjunctions into the three different types of conjunctions: correlative, coordinating and subordinating.