Conjuctions

Question 1

What are conjunctions?

Answer 1

Words used to connect word, phrases or clauses.There are 3 types

Question 2

Co-ordinating conjunctions

Answer 2

Words that join two main clauses to make a complete sentence-There are 7 co-ordinating conjunctions.F.A.N.B.O.Y.S is the mnemonic to help remember them.

Question 3

What does F.A.N.B.O.Y.S stand for

Answer 3

FOR
AND
NOR
BUT
OR
YET 
SO

Question 4

Subordinating conjunctions

Answer 4

They join subordinating clauses to main clauses e.g although, because, if, since, unless, while

Question 5

Correlative conjunctions

Answer 5

Pair of words used to connect two parts of a sentence with equal value e.g either/or , neither/nor , only/but