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| Definition - An uninflected part of speech that connects words, phrases, and clauses. |
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Example - (1) Bob and Dick (coordinating conjunction) (2) Both truth and beauty (correlative conjunction) (3) I left because it sucked (subordinating conjunction) |
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Etymology - The term derives from the Latin conjunctionem, the past participle of conjugare, to join together. Note: the Latin grammatical term was coined as a loan translation of the Greek syndesmos, conjunction. |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation in its part-of-speech sense is from 1388: "A participle … mai be resoluid into a verbe … and a coniunccion copulatif, as thus, dicens, that is, seiynge, mai be resoluid thus, and seith." (Wyclif Prol., 57) |
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Quotation - "Prepositions show the relation of one notion to another. Conjunctions show the relation of one thought to another. Hence conjunctions for the most part join one sentence to another." (Source: 1876 Mason English Grammar (ed. 21) §287) |
