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Common writing issue #1:

misuse of the conjunction.

  • Subordinate clauses are the gold-diggers.
  • They cannot stand alone.
  • They rely on both the conjunction (the "Hitch") and the independent clause (their sugar daddy/mama) to allow them to exist in grammatically correct sentences.
  • For example:

"Though Donald makes many atrocious

faces"

Conjunctions are the "Hitches" of grammar: the matchmakers, the "joiners"

Make sense?

Independent clause = sugar mama/daddy

For example:

  • Donald yelled and made a really unattractive face.

2 main types of clauses:

1. independent

2. subordinate

Think of it like this...

...if a conjunction is the 'Hitch,' the matchmaker, then the clauses are the two strapping young lovers (the two parts being joined).

  • Independent clauses can stand alone as sentences. In our Hitch analogy,

they are the sassy, strong independent sugar mamas and sugar daddies.

  • Subordinate clauses are the gold-diggers. They cannot

stand alone as sentences. They begin with

subordinate conjunctions, and are

NEEDY.

  • They are like parasites. They depend on

independent clauses for survival.

What could I possibly mean by that?

...Well, instead of connecting people, they connect clauses.

What is a clause?

A clause is the younger brother of the sentence. All sentences contain clauses, but not all clauses can stand alone as sentences.

Type 2: Subordinating conjunctions

  • These conjunctions join a needy gold digger (subordinate clause) with a wealthy, independent sugar daddy (independent clause).
  • You also CAN begin sentences with them:
  • (Because Donald Trump has money, he can make ghastly faces and still get a hot wife.)

Identify which conjunction is

subordinating, and which is

coordinating in the sentence above.

Common issue in your papers: beginning sentences with coordinating conjunctions.

list of coordinating conjunctions

[there are only seven]:

  • for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
  • Helpful acronym: FANBOYS

*Avoid beginning sentences with any of these words!

What do I mean by "equals?"

word to word:

(Bobby AND I)

phrase to phrase:

(The gold is hidden at the beach OR by the lakeside.)

independent clause to independent clause:

(What you say AND what you do

are 2 different things.)

Note: They SHOULD NOT begin sentences.

Coordinating conjunctions join equals

together...

...they join healthy clause partners together, not sugar daddies and gold diggers.

...so about these little matchmakers,

these conjunctions...

Just like clauses, there are 2 types:

1. coordinating

2. subordinating

MAD LIBS

Conjunction Junction: What's your function???

List of some subordinating conjunctions:

  • after, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as though, because, before, by the time, even if, even though, if, in order that, in case, lest, once, only if, provided that, since, so that, than, that, though, till, unless, until, when, whenever, where,

wherever, while

Writing 101

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