CONJUNCTIONS

 1. WHAT IS A CONJUNCTION?

 A conjunction is a word which is used to link thoughts and ideas within a sentence. You might think of them as being
‘the glue’ of the phrase. Without the use of a conjunction, you would not be able to express your thoughts and ideas in
a manner which flows. Your sentences would be forced into being simple and concise. Let’s take a look at an example.
Consider the following sentence.
 The girl is pretty and kind. She has blonde hair with green eyes and she is wearing a blue jacket on top of a
white t-shirt.
 You can see how the words highlighted in bold (the conjunctions) bring each of the ideas together to create a flowing
sentence. Without the use of a conjunction, the wording would be much more different.
 The girl is pretty. The girl is kind. She has blonde hair. She has green eyes. She is wearing a blue jacket. She is
wearing a white t-shirt.
 This does not sound as audibly appealing and uses far too many words and sentences, making it impractical.
 COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
The coordinating conjunction is a way of joining phrases, clauses and words together which
have an equal rank, grammatically speaking.
Let’s take a look at some examples of these conjunctions being used within a sentence.
*I would like a hamburger or a chicken burger for my dinner.
*She needed to be somewhere quiet, so she took her bag and went to the park.
*My parents never had much money when I was growing up, but they managed somehow.
 SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
A subordinating conjunction can be used to join dependent and independent
clauses. This type of conjunction can be used as a way of showing cause and
effect relationships between two clauses or a contrast, as well as various
other relationships which might occur.
 CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTION

 The correlative conjunction is one which is used in a pair. They are used as a way of
relating one sentence to another and one of the golden rules of a correlative
conjunction is that they must be equal in a grammatical sense. For example, when
using the correlative conjunction of both/and, if a noun comes after the word both,
one must also come after the word and.
Examples of correlative conjunctions are as follows-
 I do not like either the blue ones or the red ones.
 Neither my brother nor my sister live with my parents anymore.
 I went not only to China but also to Mongolia.
 I’m not sure whether he will become a teacher or a doctor when he is older.
Correlative conjunctions consist simply of a coordinating conjunction linked to an
adjective or adverb.
 LET’S PRACTICE…..
Use the following conjunctions to complete the exercises.
(and, but, or, yet, therefore, otherwise, either …. or, neither …. nor, not only …. but also, so … that, as …. as, both ….
and, as if, while, as soon as, before, though, although, after, when, where, why, how, still, till, unless, until, if, because,
since)

01. ______ he is a busy, he spends time with his family.

02. She is ______ intelligent ______ hard working.
03. Raju will play today ______ he gets a chance.
04. You can’t succeed ______ you work hard.
05. We must reach there _______ anyone else.
06. Sam is ______ a fool _____ a stupid.
07. I fell asleep _______ I was watching TV.
08. He is ______ intelligent ______ hard working.
09. Samuel was eating food ______ the postman arrived.
10. I was very angry, ______ I didn’t argue.
11. She was unhappy, ______ she was rich.
12. I like him very much ______ he is my best friend.
13. I can’t believe you ______ you speak the truth.
14. Liola is _____ tall _____ Sweety.
15. We don’t know ______ Suma failed in the examination..