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Language focus

Coordinating Conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions coordinate or join two or more sentences, main clauses,

words, or other parts of speech which are of the same syntactic importance. Also known
as coordinators, coordinating conjunctions are used to give equal emphasis to a pair of
main clauses.

And, but, for, nor, or, so, and yet—these are the seven coordinating conjunctions. To
remember all seven, you might want to learn this acronym.

Ex: My dog enjoys being bathed but it hates getting his nails trimmed.

I’ve drunk six cups of coffee today, so I’ve got a headache.

We use coordinate conjunctions to form compound sentences.

What is a compound sentence?

A compound sentence joins two or more independent clauses with a coordinator such as for,
and, or but, or a semi-colon.

Ex: Alexa loves gardening.

She is going to do gardening all day.

We can combine these two sentences by using a subordinate conjunction.

Alexa loves gardening, and she is going to do gardening all day.