Questions about coördinating conjunctions, such as “and”, “but”, “or”, “nor”, and “so”.
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Coordination in “both…and”
Here's one sentence from "The grammar book. An ESL/EFL teachers course by Celce-Murcia and Larcen Freeman.
In some preliminary research Bergsnev(1976) has shown that abstract
nouns derived ...
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Coordinating conjunction and subordinating conjunction
The joining-comma rule mentions that two complete clauses may be joined with a comma if the clauses are short or the comma is followed by a coordinating conjunction. So, I suppose that I should write
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Can the coordinating conjunction 'yet' follow a subordinating conjunction?
Is it grammatically permissible by the rules of Standard English for the coordinating conjunction ‘yet’ to follow a subordinating conjunction? For example, take the sentence:
Although it is early, ...
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Comma placement following a coordinating connector
Is there a de jure standard in print media for comma placement following a coordinating connector?
The situation is perilous, but if we are prepared to act promptly, there is still one chance of ...
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Having a laptop connected to the electrical socket
While asking a laptop related question over on Superuser, I wrote down a list of things I did trying to fix the problem.
One of the list items was that I tried running the laptop powered by its ...
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Using multiple coordinating conjunctions “ … , and … , but … ” [closed]
Is it ever acceptable to use multiple coordinating conjunctions?
"It was never my intention to become wealthy, but opportunities seemed to just happen, and I was not about to refuse them."
