Research Paper on:
Grammar and Conjunctions

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active sentences. Once they have these building blocks, next come the adjectives and adverbs. Then once these are mastered, its time for the budding English student to begin putting sentences  (now known as "clauses") together to make even longer sentences. What helps put the glue together in these clauses is the conjunction.  These are small words that those who grew up speaking English tend to take for granted - words such as and, if, but, since as and for. Yet without these  words, clauses would not be tied together and thoughts would be separated into choppy sentences, rather than being allowed to flow smoothly across a page and into a readers mind.  In this paper, well attempt to define conjunctions, and will discuss the concept of subordination and coordination conjunctions. Well also examine some  of the conjunctions in corpus, the one selected for this paper was Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. However, before even examining  conjunctions more carefully, its helpful to define what these small words are and what they convey. Very simply, the term "conjunction" comes from "co-join," in other words, to put together  (Lynch). Therefore, in their simplest terms, conjunctions are small words that connect various elements in a sentence together (Lynch). Beyond that definition, however, conjunctions come in two versions: coordinating conjunctions  and subordinating conjunctions (Lynch). An explanation and example of both types of conjunctions follows. Subordination and Coordination: An Explanation Coordinating conjunctions, in  their simplest forms, connect two things of the same kind (Lynch). "We have tickets for the symphony and the opera" is one such example; as is "have you seen or