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  2. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated CONJ or CNJ) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses, which are called its conjuncts. That description is vague enough to overlap with those of other parts of speech because what constitutes a "conjunction" must be defined for each language .

  3. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A cohesive text is created in many different ways. In Cohesion in English, M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts: reference, ellipsis, substitution, lexical cohesion and conjunction.

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English parts of speech are based on Latin and Greek parts of speech. [40] Some English grammar rules were adopted from Latin , for example John Dryden is thought to have created the rule no sentences can end in a preposition because Latin cannot end sentences in prepositions.

  5. Sotho parts of speech - Wikipedia

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    Other parts of speech unchanged including nouns, pronouns, adverbs, and deficient verbs (used with the indefinite concord e-) may be used as conjunctives. ho re ('to say') [hʊʀɪ] → hore ('such that') [hʊʀɪ] (pronounced with different tones)

  6. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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    Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article, and determiner. Other terms than part of speech —particularly in modern linguistic classifications, which often make more precise distinctions than the traditional scheme does—include word class ...

  7. Coordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, coordination is a complex syntactic structure that links together two or more elements; these elements are called conjuncts or conjoins.The presence of coordination is often signaled by the appearance of a coordinator (coordinating conjunction), e.g. and, or, but (in English).

  8. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    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. Sentence 4 is compound-complex (also known as complex-compound). Example 5 is a sentence fragment. I like trains. I don't know how to bake, so I buy my bread already made.

  9. Than - Wikipedia

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    Than is a grammatical particle analyzed as both a conjunction and a preposition in the English language. It introduces a comparison and is associated with comparatives and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it measures the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.