coordinating conjunction
noun
: a conjunction (such as and or or) that joins together words or word groups of equal grammatical rank
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Today’s groups are... Yellow group — bit of newspaper writing
Green group — noisy disturbance
Blue group — table tennis needs
Purple group — homophones of coordinating conjunctions
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Kris Holt, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
In these cases, a little knowledge about coordinating conjunctions can be dangerous.
—June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
But there’s another coordinating conjunction that causes even more subject-verb-agreement problems: or.
—June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
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Kris Holt, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
In these cases, a little knowledge about coordinating conjunctions can be dangerous.
—June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
But there’s another coordinating conjunction that causes even more subject-verb-agreement problems: or.
—June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
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“Coordinating conjunction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coordinating%20conjunction. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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