Conclusion
I hope this column was useful, but do not want to pretend to have the last word on grammatical matters.
If you want to read more about the grammar of conjunctions, try the following websites: Conjunctions are often taken for granted, but they are what connect your ideas -- and what are, stories, after all, but connected ideas?
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Coordinating Conjunctions
The best known conjunctions are the "coordinating conjunctions," also known as "coordinators." They are used to connect two ideas of equal importance.
They are considered so significant that someone came up with an acronym to help students of English grammar remember them.
FANBOYS stands for For/as/because, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So.
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Correlative Conjunctions
There is a third type of conjunction, known as "correlative conjunctions." These come in pairs, and there are six of them: either.or; not only.but (also); neither.nor (or increasingly, neither.or); both.and; whether.or; just as.so.
Here are some examples: Correlative conjunctions, like the other conjunctions, determine the flow of you.
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Subordinating Conjunctions
Another type of conjunction is the "subordinating conjunction," also known by the term "subordinator." This type of conjunction is used to connect two ideas that are not of equal importance, such as an independent clause and a dependent clause.
A dependent clause enhances the meaning of the independent clause but does not really function on its own.
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Using Conjunctions to Thicken Your Plot
Conjunctions are useful in that they let your readers know the directions in which the story is moving. Conjunctions can also be used to help your story flow better, or even to thicken the plot. Conjunctions obviously work at the micro level; that is to say, within sentences, but you can use them to help figure out the rest of your plot, too.
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