What Part of Speech is AND 7-14-17

The word and is a very common English word, which is almost always used as a conjunction. However,
in some cases, the word can also be used as a noun.

Conjunction

The word and is considered as a conjunction because it can be used to combine words, phrases, or
clauses. Furthermore, it can also serve as a joiner for sentences which are meant to be presented jointly
and together. For example, in the sentence below:

It was getting dark already and they werent home yet.

The conjunction and connects the sentences It was getting dark already and they werent home
yet to form a compound sentence.

Definition:

a. used to join words or groups of words

Example:

Writing is my bread and butter at the moment.

b. used as a function word to join one finite verb

Example:

Come and get me.

c. used to connect words of the same part of speech, clauses, or sentences that are to be taken jointly

Example:

What you say and what you do are contradicting.

Noun

The word AND in all caps is also considered as a noun in the field of computer logic. Take for example
the sentence:

The symbol for AND operation is a single dot. (Did you know?)

In that sentence, the word AND is not used as a conjunction, but rather as a noun (a type of binary
operation).

Definition:

a. a Boolean operator that gives the value one if and only if all the operands are one, and otherwise has
a value of zero

Example:

AND gates are basic logic gates.