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The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
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A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.
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a word which joins words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence eg: tea or coffee up hill and down dale He eats here because he likes my food.
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a word joining two phrases, clauses, sentences (e.g., but, and, because).
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A word used to join words and phrases, for example, the word 'And'.
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an uninflected word used to link words, phrases, or clauses. A coordinating conjunction (e.g., and, or, but, for, yet) links two equal parts of a sentence. A subordinating conjunction, placed at the beginning of a subordinate clause, shows the logical dependence of that clause on another: e.g., (1) Although I am poor I am happy. (2) While others slept, he studied. Correlative conjunctions are pairs of coordinating conjunctions (see correlatives).
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A word that joins words or phrases (i.e. and, but, or). example: I'll pass on the pork and beans, but I'd love some pizza or ziti. See for more information: Guide to Grammar and Style Conjunctions
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the state of being joined together
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an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
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the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
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something that joins or connects
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a bad word to end a sentence with
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a compound statement formed by joining two statements with the connector AND
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a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence
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a linking word, connecting words, word groups, sentences, or sentence groups
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a pair or list of similar grammatical structures which act as if they were one unit
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a part of speech that connects
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a part of speech that maintains a link amongst different ideas in both compound and complex sentences
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a part of speech used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences
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a small pink rectangle to communicate a connection between words
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a type of word whose chief function is to connect morphemes ( inter- and intranational ) words ( a short and fat boy ), phrases ( a short boy and a fat boy ) or clauses ( I shouted at the fat boy and he stared at me )
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a word conjoining or connecting thought in some order and filling a gap in the expression
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a word or phrase that links two clauses
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a word or symbol that joins clauses, phrases or words together
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a word that connects groups of words together
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a word that is used to connect sentences, clauses and phrases
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a word that joins other words or parts of sentences together
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a word that joins other words, phrases, clauses or sentences
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a word that joins other words, phrases (groups of words), or clauses (groups of words with a subject and verb)
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a word that joins together two or more words, phrases, clauses, or sentences
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a word that joins together two parts of a sentence, such as 'and', 'but', 'with', 'if' and 'or'
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a word that joins two clauses, phrases or words together
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a word that joins words or groups of words together
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a word that links words, phrases, or clauses
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a word that we use between other things that are the same in terms of grammar
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a word used to connect other words or groups of words
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a word used to connect words, phrases or clauses
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a word used to link or 'conjoin' words or phrases into a coherent whole
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a word which joins together sentences or words
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a word which joins words, phrases, clauses and sentences together
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a word that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words. There are two kinds of conjunctions: coordinating conjunctions (such as "and" and "or") and subordinating conjunctions (such as "but"). There is a conjunction between "Jupiter" and "Mars" (namely, "and").
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a word or group of words that you can use to join together other words or groups of words, e.g. and, however. A conjunction joins two main clauses. They can be joined as a single sentence or as two separate sentences
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One of the traditional parts of speech the function of which is to connect two grammatical elements. When a conjunction links two like elements, it is said to be coordinating; when it introduces a subordinate clause it is said to be subordinating: María yo fuimos anoche al cine (coordinating); Conseguí salir sin que nadie me viese (subordinating).
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a compound statement formed by inserting the word 'and' between two statements (note: other conjunction words besides 'and" can also be used, such as 'but', 'yet', 'still', 'howeve'r, 'moreover', 'although','furthermore', 'also', etc.).
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One of a small number of relational (function) words that join words or groups of words together. Conjunctions are of two kinds: some like "and," "or," "for," join words or phrases of equivalent grammatical weight. Before Tanya or I arrived, it had become late and was turning cold, so we left. Others, like "since," "when," and sometimes "for," connect subordinate clauses to the rest of the sentence. Before Tanya or I arrived, it had become late and cold, so we left.
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A word which links two clauses, groups or words. E.g. And, but, or, although, because, when?...
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Conjunctions join words or sentences together. For example: although, and, but, or, when, because.
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a word which connects words or other constructions
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A word that joins words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. The coordinating conjunctions, and, but, or, nor, yet, so, for, join grammatically equivalent elements. Correlative conjunctions ( both, and; either, or; neither, nor) join the same kinds of elements.
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a word or phrase that connects ideas within or across sentences e.g. to balance contrasting points on the other hand/while/whereas to emphasise a contrast however/nevertheless/yet to add information or arguments moreover/furthermore/in addition to indicate logical consequence therefore/as a result/consequently(empty)(empty)(empty)(empty)(empty)(empty)
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A joining word.
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a word making a join : and, or
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A CLOSED wordclass which includes COORDINATING words such as and, but, and or, and SUBORDINATING words such as because, if, and when. See also
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A compound sentence of the form "A and
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A conjunction connects words, phrases, or clauses and shows the relationship between them. A coordinating conjunction ( and, but, or) connects elements of equal importance. almost but not quite A correlative conjunction is a pair of coordinating conjunctions (such as both...and, either...or). either today or tomorrow
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A series of goals connected by the connective “and” (that is, a series of goals whose principal operator is `,').
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a word used to link clauses within a sentence, a type of connective.
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A word such as ' and', ' but', ' while' or ' although' that connects words, phrases and clauses in a sentence.
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co-ordinating subordinating conjunction
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A word used to connect words, phrases and clauses (for example: and, but, if).
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