{"id":533,"date":"2015-08-01T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/97.74.134.56\/?p=533"},"modified":"2015-08-03T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T07:26:58","slug":"conjunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/conjunctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">Conjunctions<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">Conjunctions &#8211; A conjunction is a word which joins together two <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"highlight blue\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">words, clauses or sentences.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>E.g. And , or , but , while , yet , hence , therefore , for , if , moreover , all , both , either&#8230;.or , neither&#8230;.nor , not only&#8230;.but also , whether&#8230;.or , as soon as, etc&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conjunctions are divided into two classes : <strong>Coordinating conjunctions <\/strong>(and , or , but , nor) and <strong>Subordinating conjunctions <\/strong>(if , when , because). These are sometimes called<strong> \u2018coordinators\u2019<\/strong> and<strong> \u2018subordinators\u2019<\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\"><br \/>\nCorrelative Conjunctions &#8211; Some conjunctions are used in pairs. Conjunctions which are thus used in pairs are called Correlative Conjunctions or <span class=\"highlight blue\">Merely Correlative<\/span>.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">E.g. neither&#8230;nor , whether&#8230;or , though&#8230;yet , not only&#8230;but also, etc..<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr.Rao <strong>not only<\/strong> smokes <strong>but also<\/strong> drinks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Either<\/strong> you want to go <strong>or<\/strong> you don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Only God knows <strong>whether<\/strong> he is alive <strong>or<\/strong> dead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\"><br \/>\nCompound Conjunctions &#8211; The <span class=\"highlight blue\">phrases<\/span> which are used as conjunctions are called Compound Conjunctions.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">E.g. as soon as , as well as , so that , as if , even if , to the extent that , etc..<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He behaved <strong>as if<\/strong> nothing had happened.<\/li>\n<li>We went inside <strong>as soon as<\/strong> it started raining.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\"><br \/>\nCo-ordinating Conjunctions &#8211; A coordinate conjunction joins words or word groups of the same kind and same importance.<\/span> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>E.g. and , for , either (or) , also , but , neither (nor)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cat <strong>and<\/strong> its kittens.<\/li>\n<li>A male <strong>or<\/strong> a female?<\/li>\n<li>The animal is large <strong>but<\/strong> timid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\"><br \/>\nSubordinating Conjunctions &#8211; Those conjunctions that join two sentences or clauses one of which is dependent on the other are known as subordinate conjunction.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>E.g. after , how , although , lest , whenever , etc&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">a) Subordinating Conjunctions of Time<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; The conjunctions <strong>after, as, as long as, as soon as, before, until, since, when, while<\/strong> are used to say when something happens. They are called conjunctions of time.<\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ll call you <strong>when<\/strong> I get home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>After<\/strong> he had done his duty, he felt happy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">b) Subordinating Conjunctions of Place<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; The conjunctions <strong>where and whereve<\/strong>r are used to talk about places. They are called Subordinating conjunctions of place.<\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put it <strong>where<\/strong> we can all see it.<\/li>\n<li>The dog follows Rosy wherever she goes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">c) Subordinating Conjunctions of Reason<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; The conjunctions <strong>although, because, for, once, in as much as, since, as , though, why, and in<\/strong> case tell why someone does something. They are called Subordinating conjunctions of reason.<\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She wanted an answer <strong>because<\/strong> she had to leave.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Although<\/strong> he wanted to say yes, he couldn\u2019t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">d) Subordinating Conjunctions of Purpose<\/span> <\/strong>&#8211; The conjunctions <strong>so, so that, such that<\/strong> and <strong>in order to<\/strong> tell what the purpose of something is. They are called Subordinating conjunctions of purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She raised her hand <strong>so that<\/strong> he could see her.<\/li>\n<li>We eat <strong>so that<\/strong> we may live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">e) Subordinating Conjunctions of Condition &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0The conjunctions <strong>except, if, once, though, unless, without<\/strong> are called Subordinating conjunctions of condition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If<\/strong> he buys the book, he will read it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unless<\/strong> you work hard, you cannot get good result.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">f) Subordinating Conjunctions of Comparison &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> <strong>as, as far as, as much as, as well as, else, otherwise, rather, than<\/strong> (Than only when it follows comparative adverbs or adjectives or the words else, rather, other, or otherwise.) are called Subordinating conjunctions of comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London is larger <strong>than<\/strong> any other city in England.<\/li>\n<li>Are cats more independent <strong>than<\/strong> dogs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conjunctions Conjunctions &#8211; A conjunction is a word which joins together two words, clauses or sentences.\u00a0 E.g. And , or , but , while , yet , hence , therefore , for , if , moreover , all , both , either&#8230;.or , neither&#8230;.nor , not only&#8230;.but also , whether&#8230;.or , as soon as, etc&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grammar"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CONJUNCTIONS.jpg?fit=800%2C521&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Writing Geeks","author_link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/author\/writinggeeks\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CONJUNCTIONS.jpg?fit=800%2C521&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uhmH-8B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}