Conjunctions are used to join two ideas.
The most usual conjunctions are and,
but, and or:
Paul and David. |
cold and wet. |
tired but happy. |
slowly but surely. |
tea or coffee. |
hot or cold. |
Conjunctions can also join two sentences:
Paul plays football. |
Paul plays football and David plays chess. |
I play tennis. |
I play tennis but I'm not very good. |
We can eat now. |
We can eat now or we can wait till later. |
Other conjunctions:
Because gives the reason for something.
I didn't come because it was raining.