Published 29/05/2015 In Blog
Conjunctions are used in English to link two or three ideas together in one sentence. For example:
My name is Emily. I live in Spain.
The two sentences above can be linked into one sentence by using the conjunction ‘and’
My name is Emily and I live in Spain.
Other common conjunctions include:
but/yet = CONTRAST
so = PURPOSE OR RESULT
because/as = REASON
when/before/after = TIME
Some conjunctions such as ‘because’ can come at the beginning of the sentence. Other conjunctions such as ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘so’ cannot. Writers put ‘because’ at the beginning of a sentence when they want to add emphasis to the REASON. For example:
I cannot come because I am ill. (more emphasis on ‘I cannot come’)
Because I am ill, I cannot come. (more emphasis on the REASON ‘I cannot come’)
When we begin a sentence with ‘Because’ we put a comma after the REASON, but a comma is not needed when ‘because’ is used in the middle of a sentence.
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