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close to another object house.
Into Shows the direction to go He jumped into the sea.
inside.
Direction Toward Shows the direction to go. She ran away when saw
someone coming toward
her.
With, Like, Shows how or how to do She cut the cake with a
Manner
As, By something. knife.
Because of, Showing cause or reason. The flight was cancelled
Reason
Due to due to the bad weather.
7. Conjunction
Words used to unite equivalent language units (connecting words with words,
phrases with phrases, clauses with clauses, sentences with sentences, and so on). In
simple terms, conjunctions function to connect main clauses with subordinate clauses.
Conjunction Meaning Usage Example
Connects grammatically “FANBOYS”: My brother comes to
equal words, phrases, or ➢ For his room for sleeping.
independent clauses. ➢ And
➢ Nor
Coordinating
➢ But
➢ Or
➢ Yet
➢ So.
Connecting a dependent ➢ After She called me after she
clause (subordinate ➢ Before arrived.
clause) with an ➢ When
independent clause ➢ While
(main clause). A ➢ As Soon As
Subordinating
dependent clause cannot ➢ Because
stand alone and relies ➢ If
on the independent ➢ Although
clause for complete ➢ Even though.
meaning.
Pairs to connect two ➢ Either … or She chooses neither
equal elements in a ➢ Neither … or Korea nor Japan to
sentence. ➢ Not only …. study.
Correlative
But also
➢ Both … and
➢ Whether … or
1. A compound As long as she is
conjunction is a staying in this city, she
phrase of two or will be sick again
Compound more words that because of pollution.
functions as a single
conjunction to
connect clauses or

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