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 ConjunctionsThere are only seven of these. Learn to diagram coordinating conjunctions. Example: cookies and milkHere they are: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, soYou can remember them using the acronym FANBOYS.
Subordinating ConjunctionsThere are many subordinating conjunctions. This list does not include all of them. Learn to diagram subordinating conjunctions. Example: I will eat broccoli after I eat this cookie. 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 ConjunctionsThese are always used in pairs. Example: This cookie contains neither chocolate nor nuts. 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.  Did you like this list of conjunctions and these sentence diagrams? Good! Learn more about sentence diagramming! (You'll be happy that you did!)
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