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2. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   For example, after is a preposition in "he left after the fight" but a conjunction in "he left after they fought". In general, a conjunction is an invariant (non-inflecting) grammatical particle that stands between conjuncts. A conjunction may be placed at the beginning of a sentence, [1] but some superstition about the practice persists. [2]

3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   An example of a correlative conjunction can be seen in: Not only did I finish my homework, but I also helped my sibling. Subordinators make relations between clauses, making the clause in which they appear into a subordinate clause. [35] Some common subordinators in English are: conjunctions of time, including after, before, since, until, when ...

4. Conjunct - Wikipedia

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   Additive (indicating that the content of the sentence is in addition to the preceding one) He has no money. In addition, he has no means of getting any. Summative (summing up, or concluding, on the preceding sentence(s)) A is B. A is C. To sum up, A is several things. Appositive (rephrasing the preceding sentence) Music is appreciated in France.

5. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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   Coordinators are a subset of conjunctions, a broader category that also includes subordinators. While coordinators connect elements of equal syntactic importance, subordinators mark clauses as subordinate. Both coordinators and subordinators function to connect elements within a sentence, but they do so with different syntactic and semantic roles.

6. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.

7. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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   Text from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde featuring one-sentence paragraphs and sentences beginning with the conjunctions "but" and "and". This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions.

8. Coordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Two examples of the sort of apparatus that has been posited are so-called conjunction reduction and right node raising (RNR). [6] [7] Conjunction reduction is an ellipsis mechanism that takes non-constituent conjuncts to be complete phrases or clauses at some deep level of syntax. These complete phrases or clauses are then reduced down to their ...

9. The Gregg Reference Manual - Wikipedia

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   The Gregg Reference Manual: A Manual of Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting is a guide to English grammar and style, written by William A. Sabin [1] and published by McGraw-Hill.