Coordinating Conjunction
What acronym can be used to remember the coordinating conjunctions?
What is FANBOYS? What does each letter stand for?
After the holiday break, the students went back to school.
What is after?
The second day of the week.
What is an incomplete sentence? How can it be fixed?
The girl in the park.
What about the girl in the park? What was she doing? What is the girl in the park was swinging?
Can you connect these sentences? My eyes grew heavy. I couldn't stay awake.
What is my eyes grew heavy, and I couldn't stay awake. What is a coordinating conjunction?
We waited patiently, for we were expecting an important announcement.
What is for?
I would go shopping __ I had time.
What is if?
She smiled.
What is a complete sentence? This is known as a ____ sentence.
On Friday night.
What do you do on Friday night? What is on Friday night, I eat pizza?
Can you connect this sentence with a conjunction? She stayed at home. She was immunocompromised.
What is she stayed at home because she was immunocompromised? What is a subordinating conjunction?
Can you connect these sentences with a coordinating conjunction? She was sick. She could not come to class.
What is so? She was sick, so she could not come to class.
I am saving money so that I can pay off my student loans.
What is so that?
Thanksgiving is the next American holiday.
What is a complete sentence?
The best day of the year.
What is the best day of the year is ___. Or what is ___ is the best day of the year.
Can you connect this sentence with a conjunction? I am a night owl. I wake up at 6 am to go to work.
What is yet (or but)? What is a coordinating conjunction? I am a night owl, yet I wake up at 6 am to go to work.
Can you connect these sentences with a coordinating conjunction? Caleb was a long-distance runner in college. He doesn't run anymore.
What is but? Caleb was a long-distance runner in college, but he doesn't run anymore.
I bought you tickets to the Morgan Wallen concert since you like country music.
What is since?
Although it was the weekend.
What is an incomplete sentence? How can this fragment be fixed?
What is this sentence missing? The funny boy.
What is missing the verb? The funny boy did what?
Correct/ Incorrect? It was Taylor's birthday yesterday. Thus, Taylor's friends held a surprise party for her.
What is correct? Thus is a conjunctive adverb, not a conjunction. The sentence, Taylor's friends held a surprise party for her is an independent clause.
Can you connect these sentences with a coordinating conjunction? Ella wasn't able to start kindergarten. She was six-years-old.
What is yet? Ella wasn't able to start kindergarten, yet she was six-years-old.
The students received a bad grade in science, because the teacher didn't give clear instructions. Comma? Or no comma?
What is no comma? The students received a bad grade in science because the teacher didn't give clear instructions. Why no comma?
She was ready for a break.
What is a complete sentence? Can you identify the subject and the verb(s)?
What is missing in the sentence? Danced all night.
What is the subject (or noun)? Who danced all night?
Correct/Incorrect? The lights were too bright for the passenger however, the lights helped the driver see the road.
What is incorrect? However is also a conjunctive adverb. The correct way to write the sentence would be, "The lights were too bright for the passenger. However, the lights helped the driver see the road."