SAILOR 1: We are never going to get up there, we need a conjunction. Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence. NARRATOR: Well you can’t just ...

The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

Is it correct to start a sentence with a conjunction? Here is a query from a reader of this column. Sanjay Saralaya writes, “Can one start a sentence with words and phrases such as as, because and due ...

Connect clauses using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. Goats are herd animals, so they love to stay connected by messaging their friends on GOAT CHAT. However, their messages are always ...

Khadija Attarabulsi from Libya writes: Would you please help me to learn and understand coordinating and subordinating conjunctions? I would be so grateful if you could explain them in full. Thank you ...

“Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on Lingua Franca “Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on ...

The latest fashion in Wordland is to remove the glue that holds sentences together. The conjunction, that mainstay of English grammar, gets little respect. People are using the construction "not only ...