Types of conjunctions with examples

Do you have that one friend who’s great at bringing people together for a party? They’re the real-life version of a conjunction — a word that brings parts of a sentence together (a word party, of sorts). Conjunctions can be small words (or, but, and), or they can be big words (because, although, whenever).

But no matter their size, conjunctions make your writing — and your word party — more interesting.

Conjunctions are connective or linking words.

Conjunction examples sentences

They join thoughts, actions, and ideas in writing and speech.

There are three types of conjunctions:

• coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
• subordinating conjunctions (although, because, if, since, unless, until, whenever, etc.)
• correlative conjunctions (neither/nor, either/or, not only/but also, as/as, etc.)

Unless you speak only in simple sentences, you use conjunctions in every sentence (including that one — unless is a subordinating conjunction).

But chances are, you like to vary your sentence structure now and then, so conjunctions are a great tool to

conjunction in speech