Conjunctions

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00:00Conjunctions.

00:04The word that joins words or two parts of a sentence is called conjunction.

00:12Conjunctions only join. They do no other work.

00:19The words and, but, or are joining words or conjunctions.

00:27They are used to join words as well as sentences.

00:34And.

00:36And is a connecting word that tells you more.

00:41The bird can fly.

00:47The bird can hop.

00:55The bird can fly and hop.

00:59Here, and is used to join the words fly and hop and tells the bird can fly as well as hop.

01:08Let's look at another example.

01:11But.

01:14But is a connecting word that makes a contrast between two words or sentences.

01:22He hit the ball.

01:27He dropped the bat.

01:32He hit the ball but dropped the bat.

01:36Here, but is used to join the sentences with unlike ideas.

01:43Or.

01:45Or is a connecting word that suggests there is only one choice.

01:51We can eat pizza.

01:56We can eat a burger.

02:01We can eat pizza or burger.

02:05Here, or is used to give a choice between pizza and burger.