DRIVER ONE: We’re never going to get up there, we need a conjunction.
NARRATOR: Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence.
NARRATOR: Oh, you can’t just force them together, you have to coordinate them. You need a coordinating conjunction to join groups of words that are about similar things.
DRIVER ONE: Well here it says ‘I like cats’.
DRIVER TWO: And here it says, ‘he likes dogs’.
NARRATOR: Perfect. They’re both as important and talking about similar things. Let’s grab one of these ‘coordinating conjunctions’ and drop it in.
They always go between the words you want to join. You can even join sentences with them.
DRIVER ONE: I like cats, but he likes dogs.
NARRATOR: I think you know what to do here. Hey, steady on drinking all that water.
NARRATOR: That’s great, ‘The water is calm and I am dry’.
DRIVER ONE: Whooaaa!
NARRATOR: Oops! Maybe not so dry after all.
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Joining words are also known as conjunctions. To join two similar sentences, you need to add a coordinating conjunction. You can learn more with this video.
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