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14 Conjunctions

Warm-up

Fill in the blanks with suitable conjunctions.

1. Kohli hit the ball hard it went out of the stadium.

2. Rachna is clever talented.

3. they tried their best, they could not save the tree.

4. They laughed and laughed their stomachs hurt.

5. Sania can continue working she can take a break.

You know that a conjunction is a word which is used to join two words, two
phrases or two sentences together.

You also know that conjunctions are of three kinds:

1. Coordinating conjunctions

2. Subordinating conjunctions

3. Correlative conjunctions

Let us revise them one by one.

1. Coordinating Conjunctions join two independent clauses. There are seven
coordinating conjunctions. These are—for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so. An easy
way to remember all seven is to remember the acronym: FANBOYS.
For example,

• Rashi doesn’t eat junk food, for she’s afraid of falling sick. (because)
• He picked up his racquet and went out to practice. (in addition to)
• Nikhil isn’t fond of cricket nor does he enjoy playing basketball. (and not)

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