Today's Grammar 6

Conjunctions! You know, those small words that tie ideas in a sentence together. Today we are going to start the lesson with learning a bit more about them.

Conjunctions are words that link together other words and ideas in phrases. They let you form longer and more complex sentences and thus give more of a flow to your text. If you only write short, simple sentences, your text becomes a bit choppy. 

Compare this passage... 

"I like cooking. I like eating. I don't like washing dishes afterward."

to this: 

"I like cooking and eating but I don't like washing dishes afterward." 

Examples of conjunctions:

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, soboth/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but, whether/orafter, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as though, because, before, by the time, even if, even though, if, in order that, in case, in the event that, lest , now that, once, only, only if, provided that, since, so, supposing, that, than, though, till, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, whether or not, while

Now, let's put theory into practice: http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/skrivtext/5401