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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.
In linguistics, the term conjunct has three distinct uses: . A conjunct is an adverbial that adds information to the sentence that is not considered part of the propositional content (or at least not essential) but which connects the sentence with previous parts of the discourse.
English coordinators (also known as coordinating conjunctions) are conjunctions that connect words, phrases, or clauses with equal syntactic importance. The primary coordinators in English are and , but , or , and nor .
conjunctions of condition: such as if, unless, only if, whether or not, even if, in case (that); the conjunction that , which produces content clauses , as well as words that produce interrogative content clauses: whether , where , when , how , etc.
Conjunction (connects) a syntactic connector; links words, phrases, or clauses (and, but). Conjunctions connect words or group of words. Interjection (expresses feelings and emotions) an emotional greeting or exclamation (Huzzah, Alas). Interjections express strong feelings and emotions. Article (describes, limits)
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.
An adverbial clause is a dependent clause that functions as an adverb. [1] That is, the entire clause modifies a separate element within a sentence or the sentence itself. As with all clauses, it contains a subject and predicate, though the subject as well as the (predicate) verb are omitted and implied if the clause is reduced to an adverbial phrase as discussed below.
Conjunction may refer to: Conjunction (grammar), a part of speech; Logical conjunction, a mathematical operator Conjunction introduction, a rule of inference of propositional logic; Conjunction (astronomy), in which two astronomical bodies appear close together in the sky; Conjunction (astrology), astrological aspect in horoscopic astrology