Understand Different Ways of Linking Clauses

When you are writing, using the correct grammar is very important. 

 

This is because written English needs clarity to ensure it is understood. 

 

Grammar covers a whole list of things in your writing: tenses, sentence structure, modal verbs, conjunctions, word class, paragraphs... and it all needs to be considered when writing. 

 

 

In this activity, you will be looking at conjunctions. These are words whose job in a sentence is to link; think of them as a chain, keeping two things together. 

 

Conjunctions can be coordinating - they balance, or coordinate, two parts of a sentence. These are often referred to with the acronym FANBOYS.

 

For

And

Nor

But

Or

Yet

So

 

There are also correlative conjunctions, which show a relation between two things.

For example:

 

Either...or...

Neither...nor...

 

You probably know lots of conjunctions already, so let's get started on some questions!