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Saturday, February 5, 2011

My Speech About Conjunctions

So, this is the speech I gave one of my friends about Conjunctions. It's not very long or detailed, but it's something:

Conjunctions do exactly what they are names. They conjoin. It may be two subjects, two independent clauses, two predicates, an independent clause and a dependent clause. The dictionary definition is as follows: "any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however."

Obviously, there are groups that each one goes into. The FANBOYS are the cordinating conjunctions, there are subordinating conjunctions (because, while, since, although, unless, as, if, the ones that don't fit into the other two catergories but they do still conjoin), and then there are correlative conjunctions (they come in pair and ALWAYS do: neither...nor, either...or, whether...or, both...and, not only...but also)



So, yeah, there you go...I have to thank my HLA teacher for teaching me this. Or else I wouldn't be able to do this now.

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