List of Conjunctions

Use this list of conjunctions to help you understand conjunctions a bit better. For more information, see the conjunctions page.

Quick Refresher: Conjunctions are words that join two or more words, phrases, or clauses.

Coordinating Conjunctions

There are only seven of these.

Learn to diagram coordinating conjunctions.

Here they are:

You can remember them using the acronym FANBOYS.

Subordinating Conjunctions

There are many subordinating conjunctions. This list does not include all of them.

Learn to diagram subordinating conjunctions.

A: after, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as though

B: because, before, by the time

E: even if, even though

I: if, in order that, in case

L: lest

O: once, only if

P: provided that

S: since, so that

T: than, that, though, till

U: unless, until

W: when, whenever, where, wherever, while

Correlative Conjunctions

These are always used in pairs.

both... and

either... or

neither... nor

not only... but also

whether... or

Diagram Conjunctions!

Diagramming sentences is a way to show you how the words in a sentence are related to each other.

You can see that coordinating conjunctions connect two or more elements in a sentence because they go on a dotted line between the elements that they connect.

Subordinating conjunctions connect dependent and independent clauses. You can see this in a diagram because the conjunction goes on a dotted line between the two clauses.

Learn more about sentence diagramming!

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