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The tiny word doing the heavy lifting your whole sentence depends on.
means A word that links other words, phrases, or clauses together — like 'and,' 'but,' 'or,' and 'because.'
from From Latin coniunctio, 'a joining together,' built from con- ('together') and iungere ('to join') — the same iungere that gives us 'join,' 'junction,' and 'yoke.' The grammatical sense is ancient, borrowed by Latin scholars to name exactly what these little words do: yoke pieces of language side by side. Fittingly, astronomers use the same word for two planets appearing to meet in the sky — another kind of joining.
- oldest words
- And, but, or are among English's most ancient
- rule breaker
- Starting sentences with them was never actually wrong
- astronomy too
- It also means two planets appearing close together
- acronym FANBOYS
- For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
- glue logic
- Computers run on the AND, OR they inherited
but — coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses, one of the seven in english grammar
because — subordinating conjunction introducing causal clauses, most frequently used in english
and — coordinating conjunction connecting words/phrases, the most common conjunction in english