![]() ![]() EX (not a complete list): if, because, although, when, where, unless, until, since. These words help you create sentences with increasingly complicated ideas and relationships between those ideas. Subordinating Conjuctions: these begin clauses that cannot stand on their own and tell you how that clause relates to the rest of the sentence.EX: either.or, both.and, not only.but also. ![]() Coorelative Conjunctions: these are pairs of words that join equally important words, phrases, and clauses.Coordinating Conjunctions: these are single words that join words, phrases, and clauses of equal grammatical importance in the sentence.CONJUNCTION: These join words, phrases and clauses.They answer these questions about an action: where? when? why? how? in what way? how much? EX: tomorrow, next, quietly, honorably, very. Adverbs are often made from adjectives (careful - carefully). ADVERB: These modify several things: verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. ![]() EX: Walking, throwing a football, going downtown. When a verb is in its present participle ("ing") form, it can operate as a noun (called a gerund). EX: The car was blue and full of bullet holes. Verbs can also be linking verbs, meaning that they connect a subject to a word or group of words which describe or complete its meaning. EX: Transitive: Walter kicked the football. Verbs can be transitive, meaning that they act on something else, or intransitive, meaning that they don't.
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