Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. I've never been to a "con." What I mean by this, of course, is a major "convention" (unless you count the Southern Baptist convention back in 2004, but ...

In grammar, a conjunction is a connecting word. The most common, called "coordinating conjunctions," are "and," "but" and "or." Our old friend "as" also can serve as a conjunction, a type known as ...

SAILOR 1: We are never going to get up there, we need a conjunction. Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence. NARRATOR: Well you can’t just ...

The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many generations of students have had certain grammar “truths” drilled into their little heads. One is the “myth” that ...

And, but and or are the three main coordinating conjunctions. They join two clauses which are grammatically independent of each other and would make sense if they stood alone. Compare the following: ...

“Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on Lingua Franca “Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on ...