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What does the acronym "FANBOYS" stand for?
For, An, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Identify the coordinating conjunction:
You can eat your burrito with a knife and fork too.
What rock group has four dudes but none of them plays an instrument?
Mount Rushmore
Identify the correlative conjunctions:
Not only did Michael grill burgers for himself and Tiffany but also for their dog, Rocket.
Not only, but also
Identify the conjunctive adverb:
I wanted to see a scary movie; however, my friend wanted to see a comedy.
"however"
What is a conjunction's only "job"?
To connect words, phrases, or clauses.
Identify the coordinating conjunction:
Even though I added salt to the squid stew, Rocky still didn't want any, so I got a spoon and ate it myself.
"so"
The more you take from me, the bigger I become. What am I?
A hole.
Identify the correlative conjunctions:
A lion cannot run as fast as a cheetah.
as, as
Place the proper punctuation marks in the following sentence:
The snow kept Sally from jogging anyway she had homework to do.
The snow kept Sally from jogging; anyway, she had homework to do.
What do coordinating conjunctions do?
Joins elements of equal importance in a sentence.
The following sentence is missing a comma. Where should the comma go?
While I am at work, my dog Floyd sleeps on the bed and my cat Buster naps in the bathtub.
After "bed", before "and".
What is as big as an elephant but weighs zero pounds?
An elephant's shadow.
True or False: Correlative conjunctions do not connect sentences together.
True.
Place the proper punctuation in this sentence.
You need to eat your vegetables otherwise you will not be healthy.
You need to eat your vegetables; otherwise, you will not be healthy.
What do correlative conjunctions do?
Two conjunctions that work together and relate one sentence element to another.
What is a clause?
A group of words containing a subject and a verb.
A pink girl with a pink dress, a pink cat, a pink hat and pink walls lives in a pink bungalow. What color are her stairs?
There are no stairs in a bungalow.
What do correlative conjunctions connect in a sentence?
Words or phrases.
Complete the sentence with a conjunctive adverb.
I really wanted the red board; __________, I bought the cheaper, blue one.
An adverb that acts as a conjunction to bring two clauses together.
Main cause + conjunctive adverb + main clause
What is a phrase?
A group of words that could never stand alone as a sentence and doesn’t a subject and a verb.
The man who made it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
A coffin. :-(
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate correlative conjunction pair:
________ the cousins ________ Yolanda expressed their disappointment when Aunt Sophie set down the plate of burnt hamburgers.
Neither/ nor
What does a conjunctive adverb connect together?
Two independent ideas, clauses, or sentences.