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English Grammar - Conjunctions

Conjunctions are used to express a connection between words. There are three types of conjunctions: coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, and subordinating conjunctions.

The most familiar coordinating  conjunctions are and, but, and or.

Examples: 

I and my wife go to the party.

Hot or cold.

Here are examples of correlative conjunctions. They are always come in pairs: 
both...and,  not only...but, also either...or neither...nor whether...or

Examples:

Both my dad and my mom play the piano.

Subordinating conjunctions, (subordinators) are most important in creating subordinating clauses. 

Here are some examples of them:

after 
before 
when now
while 
since 
until 

because 
since 
that 
as 
in order that 
so 

although 
though 
even though 
whereas 
while 
in case (that) 

if 
unless 
only if 
whether or not 
even if