What are conjunctions? Conjunctions join together two different, but related, parts of a sentence. They can be words like 'and', 'but', 'if', 'when', and 'because'. For example: I like swimming ...

Geoff Pullum’s heart sinks as he sees a government-ordained test of grammar that requires children to give an incorrect 18th-century answer rather than a correct 21st-century one.

What are conjunctions? Conjunctions are joining words that link two parts of a sentence together. Some examples include: because and or but ...

We all learned about conjunctions in grade school, a memory likely filed away with other early school memories, such as how to do long division and reciting multiplication tables through the ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.