COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

1. AND

   • I hope I can rest and sleep a long time tonight
   • We use "and" in lists of things, and to link independent sentences wich are not necessarily consequences

2. FOR

   • He won't kill you for he has no reason
   • It is a formal way to give a reason

3. BECAUSE

   • I cannot think clearly because of fear
   • Why didn't you come yestarday? -Because I had several problems
   • It is used for giving reasons or answering a "why" question

4. NOR

   • That movie wasn't fun, nor interesting
   • It is used to list different items in a negative clause

5. YET

   • You haven't done you homework yet, it's time to do it
   • We use yet most commonly in questions and negatives, to talk about things which are expected but which have not happened.

6. OR

   • ¿Do you wanna coffee or want something else?
   • It is a disjunctive conjunction, wich means it is used for offering different and discriminatory (opposed) options (sentences)

7. SO

   • I know he'll get here tomorrow, so we'll get a coffe together
   • It links sentences when one of the clauses is posible because of previous clause