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Conjunctions and Transitions!

This document discusses the differences between clauses and sentences, conjunctions and transitions. Clauses contain a subject and verb but may or may not express a complete thought, while sentences always express a complete thought. Conjunctions connect clauses, while transitions connect sentences and indicate relationships between ideas. There are different types of conjunctions such as coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Transitions are used to connect sentences and paragraphs and can indicate addition, opposition, emphasis, comparison, consequence, and conclusion.

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Conjunctions and Transitions!

This document discusses the differences between clauses and sentences, conjunctions and transitions. Clauses contain a subject and verb but may or may not express a complete thought, while sentences always express a complete thought. Conjunctions connect clauses, while transitions connect sentences and indicate relationships between ideas. There are different types of conjunctions such as coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Transitions are used to connect sentences and paragraphs and can indicate addition, opposition, emphasis, comparison, consequence, and conclusion.

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Clauses vs Sentences CLAUSE
SENTENCE

Group of words that contain a Group of words that expresses


subject and a verb. complete thought.

Sometimes conveys a complete Always conveys a complete


thought. thought.

Building unit of a sentence. Made up of one or more clauses.


Examples of Clauses and
Sentences
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Independent Clauses: A declarative sentence is a sentence that


She didn’t understand the lesson states information and facts.
although the teacher explained it well. For example,
She cried.
Dependent Clauses: The dog barked at the moon.
He didn’t join them although he wanted to The Chinese girl won the first place.
swim.
I didn’t buy that dress since you didn’t
like it.
Conjunctions vs Transitions
Are words or phrases that indicate
Are words that connect two
the relationship between two
phrases or clauses.
sentences or paragraphs.

Connect two sentences or


Connect two clauses.
paragraphs.

Removing a conjunction will affect Removing a transition will not


the grammar of a sentence. affect the grammar of the text.

Not always set apart from the rest


Set apart from the rest of the
of the caluse or sentence by
sentence by the use of commas.
commas.
Clause Sentence
Subordinating conjunctions

are used
– to provide a smooth transition between ideas

– to indicate a relationship with time, place, cause, result, etc.

and
– to indicate what part of a sentence is more important
Some examples of such subordinating conjunctions are
once, while, when, whenever, where, wherever, before, and after.

Once Batman learned that Robin had not been wearing his seatbelt, he took
away his keys to the Batmobile.
Robin looked regretfully at the Batmobile whenever he passed it in the Batcave.
After Batman was done working for the night, Robin took a secret ride in the
Batmobile.
Coordinating conjunctions
link two independent clauses and form a compound sentence.
They can join two verbs, two nouns, two adjectives, two
phrases, or two independent clauses.

There are only seven of them: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
Meet the Key Players: FANBOYS
The best way to remember the seven coordinating conjunctions is by using the acronym FANBOYS:
For And Nor But Or Yet So

The children ran and jumped all over the playground.


Would you like cereal or toast for breakfast?
The old castle seemed grand yet mysterious.
Slowly but surely, the turtle finished the race.
Correlative conjunctions
When pairs or sets of conjunctions are being used, they do not need to be
separated from each other by a comma. However, a comma may be used
between the conjunctions to accommodate another grammar rule*.
Some common correlative conjunction sets include:
either . . . or
neither . . . nor
both . . . and
whether . . . or
not only . . . but also

Either the blue shirt or the red sweater will look good with your jeans.
*Not only we will have cake for dessert, but also ice cream.
Transitions are words or phrases that connect one idea to the next.

- are used to connect two sentences or two paragraphs.


- can also introduce a shift, indicate opposition, emphasis, result, etc.
Some of them are:

Adding information Opposition Emphasis/Examples Comparison Consequence Conclusion

In addition On the contrary In fact Similarly As a result After all

Morover However For example Likewise Thus In essence

Furthermore Regardless Specially In like manner Therefore In summary

Additionally On the other hand In particular Equally important Hence On the whole

Also Nevertheless For instance Despite that Consequently Overall


References
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sentence/

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conjunctions-and-transitions/

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma-between-
correlative-conjunction-sets/

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/coordinating-
conjunctions/

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/subordinating-
conjunctions/

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