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List of Conjunctions

This list of conjunctions will knock your socks off.

If you want to get super smart, you should see the conjunctions page.

Quick Refresher

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

List of Coordinating Conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions join sentence elements that are the same. They can join words, phrases, and clauses.

cookies and milk (joining words)

into the house and out the door (joining phrases)

He came and she left. (joining clauses)

There are only seven of these, and they're easy to memorize if you use the mnemonic device FANBOYS.

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

This sentence diagram shows us that coordinating conjunctions connect two or more sentence elements.

Check it out! The coordinating conjunction goes on a dotted, vertical line between the things that it connects.

That diagram shows a coordinating conjunction joining two independent clauses. Sentence diagramming rules! You can lean to diagram coordinating conjunctions here.

Sentence Diagram of a Coordinating Conjunction www.GrammarRevolution.com/list-of-conjunctions.html

List of Subordinating Conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions are conjunctions that join dependent clauses to independent clauses.

I will eat broccoli after I eat this cookie.

(I will eat broccoli = independent clause, after I eat this cookie = dependent adverb clause)

There are many subordinating conjunctions, so keep in mind that this list doesn't include all of them! A WHITE BUS is a way to help you memorize some 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

You can see that these kinds of conjunctions connect dependent clauses (also called subordinate clauses) to independent clauses just by looking at the sentence diagram!

The subordinating conjunction goes on a dotted line between the two clauses.

Learn more about diagramming subordinating conjunctions.

Sentence Diagram of a Subordinating Conjunction www.GrammarRevolution.com/list-of-conjunctions.html

List of Conjunctions - Correlative Conjunctions

These kinds of conjunctions do the same thing that coordinating conjunctions do except that they are always used in pairs.

This cookie contains neither chocolate nor nuts.

both... and

either... or

neither... nor

not only... but also

whether... or

Here's a sentence diagram of the correlative conjunction both … and.

Did you notice that it's diagrammed in the same way that we diagrammed our coordinating conjunction above? I thought you would. You're so smart.

Sentence Diagram of a Correlative Conjunction www.GrammarRevolution.com/list-of-conjunctions.html

Conjunction Junction

What page about conjunctions would be complete without a link to Schoolhouse Rock's super catchy Conjunction Junction? (Did you watch this when you were a kid?)

Here are a few other lessons you might enjoy.

How can the words a white bus help you memorize subordinating conjunctions?

Here's one simple tip for using colons.

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