clause + conjunction + clause

conjunction + clause, + clause

1.  A conjunction joins two clauses.

• I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I tried hard but I couldn't understand. His father died, so he had to stop his studies. I know that you don't like her. I 'II sell it to you cheap because you 're a friend of mine. She married to him although she didn't love him. We 'II start at eight о 'clock so that we can finish early. I'd tell you If I knew.

When we join two or more expressions, we usually put and before the last.

• bread and cheese
• We drank, talked and danced.
• I wrote the letters, Peter addressed them, George bought the stamps and Alice posted them.

In two-word expressions, we often put the shortest word first.

• young and pretty
• cup and saucer

Some common expressions with and have a fixed order which we cannot change.

• hands and knees (NOT knees and hands)
• knife and fork
• bread and butter men
• women and children
• fish and chips

We do not usually use and with adjectives before a noun.

• Thanks for your nice long letter. (NOT . . . your nice and long letter.)
• a tall dark handsome cowboy

But we use and when the adjectives refer to different parts of the same thing.

• red and yellow socks
• a metal and glass table

A conjunction is a linking word such as and, or, but. Conjunctions are used to connect words or sentences.

·       The animal is large but timid.

·       Is this a sheep or a goat?

·       a cat and its kittens

·       a doctor and a nurse

·       slow but steady

·       Paul has a dog, a parrot and a cat.

·       It’s cold, wet and windy today.