Friday, September 28, 2012

WEEK 5 – Parts of Speech: Conjunction & Interjection


WEEK 5 – Parts of Speech:  Conjunction & Interjection

CONJUNCTION
Conjunction:  A conjunction is a word or words used to join other words, phrases, or clauses.
            Joining words:  apples and pears, dogs or cats
            Joining phrases:  on the top and on the bottom; hitting the books and sleeping eight hours

Coordinating conjunctions:  and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet (or “fanboys”)

Correlative conjunctions:  These pairings of words join two or more words with words, phrases with phrases, and clauses with clauses
            either … or;
            neither … nor;
            not only … but also; 
            both … and;
            whether … or

Adverbial conjunctions join subordinate clauses with main clauses
            Examples:  although, if, because, since

Generally, conjunctions appear within the sentence.  On rare occasions, a conjunction may begin a sentence or paragraph.




INTERJECTION
Interjection:  An interjection is a word or group of words expressing emotion or feeling, however slight.  Also, this part of speech doesn’t fit into any of the other categories of the parts of speech.

Examples:         Well, I don’t think so.
                        Marvelous! You have done an incredible job.
                        Oh no.  This is terrible.

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