English Grammar
Basic Grammar -> Conjuction
| There are following types of conjunctions: | |
| 1 | Coordinating conjunctions : |
| These words (and, but, or, nor, for, so, or yet) are used to join individual clauses. For example (all of the italicized words are coordinating conjunctions): | |
| For example: | |
| (i) Eggs and fishes are rich in proteins (Two nouns are linked with 'and') | |
| (ii) He was sad, for he had sufficient a lot. ('for' is linking two independent clauses) | |
| 2 | Subordinating conjunctions : |
| A dependent clause is introduced with a subordinating clause, and it also indicated the kind of relationship exists between the dependent and independent clause. The most common subordinating conjunctions are: after, although, as, because, before, how, if, once, since, than, that, thought, till, until, when, where, whether and while. | |
| For example: | |
| (i) After he walked with his friends, he felt better. ('After he talked with his friends' is a dependent clause) | |
| If I call you, please pick up the phone. ('If I call you' is the dependent clause) | |
| He realized that he needs to work harder when he saw his exam results. ('when he saw his exam results' is the dependent clause) | |
| 3 | Correlative conjunctions : |
| These always come in pairs and are used to link equivalent sentence elements both… and , either… or, neither…nor, not only…, but also, so …as, and whether… or. | |
| For example: | |
| (i) Both my father and mother are doctors.('both' 'and' conjunction pair is used to link two noun phrases which also act as the compound noun of the sentence) | |
| (ii) I will either go to Greece or Canada in my holidays. ('either' or conjunction pair is linking two nouns here) |