What are conjunctions? Conjunctions are joining words that link two parts of a sentence together. Some examples include: because and or but ...

What are conjunctions? Conjunctions join together two different, but related, parts of a sentence. They can be words like 'and', 'but', 'if', 'when', and 'because'. For example: I like swimming ...

Geoff Pullum’s heart sinks as he sees a government-ordained test of grammar that requires children to give an incorrect 18th-century answer rather than a correct 21st-century one.

The American Heritage Dictionary notes that “this rule has been ridiculed by grammarians for decades, and the stricture has been ignored by writers from Shakespeare to Joyce Carol Oates.” (This is ...