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Conjunctions

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Fill in the blanks with correct conjunctions given in the box.

and yet while so but

1. _______________ we waited for the bus, a flock of parrots squawked overhead.
2. Akshat _______________ Rani went to play together.
3. Raman recently moved to Meghalaya, _______________ she hates the rain.

4. Dolly prefers pizza _______________ her brother likes home-cooked food.
5. Rahul loves being outside, _______________ she walks home from school

every day.

Let’s Learn Conjunctions

A conjunction is used to connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences. They are often used
to connect short sentences to avoid repetition and give a better flow to the language. For
example:
I went to the market. I bought some vegetables.
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I went to the market and bought some vegetables.
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While using conjunctions, all parts of a sentence have to be in agreement. For example:

They went shopping and buy fruits. (This sentence is grammatically incorrect as the
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tense is not consistent.)
They went shopping and bought fruits. (This is the correct tense usage.)
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Some commonly used conjunctions are and, for, nor, as, just as, not only... but also, because,
or, so, but, neither, whether, yet, etc.

Let’s Learn Kinds of Conjunctions

There are three kinds of conjunctions.

Subordinating Conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions join dependent (subordinate) clauses to independent (main)
clauses. A subordinating conjunction connects the main idea to a place, time or relationship,
depicted in the dependent clause. For example:
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