“Coordinating conjunctions” are the ones that are fine to use at the beginnings of sentences. They merely link two similar constructs, be they words (“blue or white”), independent clauses (“They’re ...

Conjunctions are joining words, coordinating conjunctions join groups of words about similar things. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

None of us doubts that “Mayor Carlson is here” takes a different verb form than “Mayor Carlson and his deputies are here.” The “and,” a coordinating conjunction, coordinates the ...

Coordinating conjunctions: I went there but (I) got there late. James and Ade didn’t come. Subordinating conjunctions: Although I went there, I didn’t stay long.

When Curzan notes that slash has joined the “conjunction” class she means it has become what traditional grammar would call a coordinating conjunction. But there are good reasons for not ...

Example: I went to the beach, and I got a sunburn. The two independent clauses in this sentence are “I went to the beach” and “I got a sunburn.” The coordinating conjunction is “and ...

Commas don't just signify pauses in a sentence — precise rules govern when to use this punctuation mark. Commas are needed before coordinating conjunctions, after dependent clauses (when they ...