Charts of Connecting
Words and Transition
Signals
ingWords
Coordinatingconju.nctions
Coordinatingconjunctionsconnectgrammaticallyequalelements.Coordinating
conjunctionsaresometimescalledthe"FanBoys"conjunctions-For,And,Nor,
But,Or,Yet,So.for Connectsa reasontoa result Iama littlehungry,forI didn't
eatbreakfastthismorning.
and Connectsequalsimilarideas Johnlikestofishandhunt.
nor Connectstwonegativesentences Shedoesnoteatmeat,nor
doesshedrinkmilk.
but Connectsequaldifferentideas I liketoeatfishbutnot
tocatchthem.
or Connectstwoequalchoices Doyouprefercoffeeortea?
yet Connectsequalcontrastingideas It is sunnyyetcold.
so Connectsa resulttoa reason I didnoteatbreakfastthis
morning,soIama littlehungry.Paired(correlative)conju.nctions
Con-elativeconjunctionsarealwaysinpairs.Likecoordinatingconjunctions,they
connectgrammaticallyequalelements.(PleasealsoreadthesectionParallelismon
pages179-181.)291