Conjunctions Joining Words

and, but, or

These are connector conjunctions. They join words, ideas, lists, clauses, and sentences together. But we're going to start talking about COORDINATING conjunctions. ​

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Subordinating Conjunctions

This is a word that joins an independent clause to a dependent clause. We did discuss this briefly without calling them this.

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Subordinating Conjunctions List​

There is no comma when the subordinate clause is second.

Subordinate second

Because the subordinate clause is first, there must be a comma after it.

Subordinate first

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