Subordinating &

Coordinating
Conjunctions
EAP 1
Importance
 Subordinating & coordinating conjunctions are
important because they join different clauses to
form long, well constructed sentences.
What is a clause?
 An independent clause is a phrase that can stand alone as it’s
own sentence.

 The car is red.

 A dependent clause is a phrase that needs to have another one

in order to make it a complete sentence.

 When the kids drove the car.

When to use Coordinating
Conjunctions
 Use it to join independent clauses, phrases,
and individual words.

 FANBOYS
FANBOYS
Simple sentences that can
stand alone.
 Two independent clauses

I like her.
She likes me.

NOW, LET’S COMBINE THEM WITH

A CONJUNCTION!
I like her , and she likes me
Questions:
Examples of Coordinating
Conjunctions
 She picked daffodils and sunflowers, which
are usually yellow.
 I wanted to go over my friends house but I
had a lot of homework.
 When to use Subordinate
Conjunctions
 Introduces a dependent clause and shows the
relationship between the dependent and
independent clauses.

 Common conjunctions are “after”, “although”,

“as”, “because”, “before”, “how”, “if” and
“once”.
 Examples of Subordinating
Conjunctions
 If you do your homework, you can play with
the dog.

 They lost the football game because of the

bad weather.
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