GRAMMAR
No matter how creative you are with a pen and paper, grammar cannot be abandoned to the wayside. There is nothing more irritating to your English teacher than a brilliant narrative composed in a range of conflicting tenses or a painstakingly thought-out essay written as a single run-on sentence. Provided below are the grammatical rules to adhere to in order to maintain the smile on your English teacher’s face. For further help, you can navigate the following websites:
CONJUNCTIONS
A conjunction is a part of speech that connects two or more words, phrases, or clauses together to show how they relate. The three types of conjunctions? coordinating, correlative, and subordinating? are described below. The following sites also outline conjunctions and their usage:
Coordinating Conjunctions
- Used to join independent clauses or grammatically equivalent elements of a sentence like nouns, verb phrases, and propositional phrases
- Used between the two final items in a list
- In compound sentences, used to join independent clauses:
Coordinating Conjunction |
Purpose |
Similar Words |
And |
To connect similar ideas |
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But |
To connect contrasting ideas |
Nevertheless, although, yet |
Or |
To connect alternative ideas out of which only one is possible |
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Nor |
To connect similar negative ideas |
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For |
To connect an explanation to an original idea |
Because, since |
So |
To connect ideas with a cause-effect relationship |
Therefore, in consequence |
Yet |
To connect contrasting ideas; to lead an original idea to a resulting idea |
However, nevertheless, but |
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