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  2. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Coordinating conjunctions, also called coordinators, are conjunctions that join, or coordinate, two or more items (such as words, main clauses, or sentences) of equal syntactic importance. In English, the mnemonic acronym FANBOYS can be used to remember the most commonly used coordinators : for , and , nor , but , or , yet , and so . [ 13 ]

  3. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; ... Commonly-used coordinating conjunctions in English: FANBOYS [30] ... List of mnemonics for the cranial nerves, their respective type ...

  4. Conjunct - Wikipedia

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    Conjuncts are conjoined by means of a conjunction, which can be coordinating, subordinating or correlative. Conjuncts can be words, phrases, clauses, or full sentences. [Gretchen and her daughter] bought [motor oil, spark plugs, and dynamite]. Take two of these and call me in the morning.

  5. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of contractions used in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations; these are to be avoided anywhere other than in direct quotations in encyclopedic prose. Some acronyms are formed by contraction; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations .

  6. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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    English coordinators (also known as coordinating conjunctions) are conjunctions that connect words, phrases, or clauses with equal syntactic importance. The primary coordinators in English are and , but , or , and nor .

  7. List of English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; ... grammars informed by concepts from traditional grammar may categorize these conjunctive prepositions as subordinating conjunctions.

  8. English subordinators - Wikipedia

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    English subordinators (also known as subordinating conjunctions or complementizers) are words that mostly mark clauses as subordinate. The subordinators form a closed lexical category in English and include whether ; and, in some of their uses, if , that , for , arguably to , and marginally how .

  9. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    It refers to a restricted subset of what are classified as subordinating conjunctions in traditional grammar. There are only a very few complementizers: that, whether, and if are the main examples. [1] Traditional grammar includes words like because, while, and unless in the class of subordinating conjunctions.