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Conjunctions: And, But, Because, When

Introduction
Conjunctions are words that function as a link between different clauses or elements in
sentence.

Form
Conjunctions are words that connect words, phrases and clauses in a sentence.
The main conjunctions are: and, but, because and when.

The structure of the sentence is:

Clause 1 + conjunctions + clause 2

If the sentence is longer we put comma (,) before the conjunction.

Example
Kevin reads the newspaper and watches television every Friday.
They live in New York and love its beautiful library.
I like maths lessons but I don’t really like history lessons.
You can go hiking there but you have to be very careful.
Anna doesn’t want to take the exam because she did not study.
We can’t come to the party tonight because we must study.
You get very tired when you don’t sleep.
We came from school when nobody was home.

Use
Conjunctions are used to connect words, phrases, clauses and sentences and show relations
between them.

We can combine the clauses in different ways:

and: it connects two sentences (addition);

but: it states either a condition or a contrast (contrast);
because: it states the reason (cause);
when: it states the time of the sentences (time).

Related
At B1 level, you can learn more about some other Conjunctions [1]: after, although, as soon as,

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until, whether, while…

Besides, there are conjugate forms you can learn such as Cause and effect conjunctions
[2](express the concept of cause and effect); Before as conjunction [3](refer to the order of
actions); Correlative conjunctions [4](concatenate at the same time emphasizing two words or
phrases).

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