Conjunctions and its Types

Conjunction is one of the eight parts of speech in English grammar, the other seven being noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition and interjection. Let’s have a look at conjunction and its types along with examples used in combining sentences, words and phrases in this post. Conjunction is a part of speech that combines two words, phrases or sentences together. For example:
Maria bought flora pencils for her daughter
Maria bough curved scissors for her daughter.
Maria bought flora pencils  and curved scissors for her daughter.  (Here, ‘and’ is the conjunction that connects the two sentences together.
There are two broad classifications of conjunction – Coordinating Conjunctions and Subordinating Conjunctions.

Coordinating Conjunctions: 
When a conjunction is used to combine two meaningful sentences of equal importance, it is called coordinating conjunctions. Coordinating conjunctions are also termed as coordinators. In English grammar, the coordinators to combine sentences are for, and, nor, either, neither, but, or, yet, so etc. For example:
• She will either buy Kittens shoes: or Disney shoes for her baby.
• Neither he drinks nor does he smoke.
• He is poor but humble.
• Online shopping is easy yet affordable.
• She brought apples and oranges from the market.

Subordinating Conjunctions:
When a conjunction combines two sentences where one of the sentences depends on the other to convey a complete meaning, it is called subordinating conjunctions. Subordinating conjunctions are also called subordinators. Subordinators combine and independent clause and a dependent clause to convey a complete meaning. Some of the most popular subordinators used in English grammar are: after, although, as, as far as, as long as, as soon as, because, since, whenever, whereas, while, since and more.  For example:
• As soon as she heard of online baby shopping, she rushed to buy baby food.
• Whenever he comes, it rains.
• Since I left the city, I have never been there again.
• While I was shopping online, I availed a discount coupon of branded stuff.
• He has not come today because he is ill.
These are some of the basics on conjunction and its types.