Coordinating conjunctions connect, or bridge, two parts of a sentence that have a similar form or equal importance in the sentence. For example, we can connect two or more nouns or noun phrases or two or more verbs or verb phrases, and so on. Coordinating conjunctions help to connect these parts of a sentence in an organized way that makes sentences easier to understand what we read. There are seven coordinating conjunctions that can be easily remembered by the acronym FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
Some examples of parts of speech from the sentences above:
- Nouns: conjunctions, parts, sentence, phrases, form, importance
- Verbs: connect, bridge, have, help
- adverbs: easily
- Adjectives: similar, equal, organized
- Conjunctions: or, and