He played well, although he was injured.
Some people think you can join things together
with any old conjunction, but the different conjunctions
have different meanings.
The relation between the two things joined is shown by the conjunction
you use. See if you can improve this sentence by altering two of the
conjunctions:
"Locke said you should always reason logically, and I do not think he was
realistic and I agree with Hume that it is not always possible."
The
following words are almost always conjunctions:
but, and, or, nor, if, although,
Some words are sometimes
conjunctions and sometimes
adverbs
and/or
prepositions.
For example:
because. therefore, so, however, since, until.
Other words sometimes act as
conjunctions, but are usually called something else. For example:
when, where.
(
Fowler 1968
p.104)
Sometimes
conjunctions go at the beginning of sentences to be
joined. e.g. "We will sit down if you are tired" could
be written "If you are tired, we will sit down".
nouns:
A noun is a word that names something.
Words that name people, places, things, creatures, emotions,
qualitys, measurements, or
ideas
are all nouns, but
they are not all the same kind of noun.
People and places are
named by proper nouns. These begin with capitals, like
Ponders End and Wendy Truelove.
Proper, in this
sense, means `own`. So the names Ponders End and
Wendy Truelove are owned by that place and that
person. They are not common to a whole
class
of places or people.
Place and person are also nouns, but as they
name a whole class of things, they are called common
nouns. They are only capitalised at the start of a
sentence or in a title.
prepositions:
The technical definition of a preposition
is difficult, but most prepositions are easy to recognise
as they show the position of one thing to another. For example
Syntax
means arrangement. The
syntax of a language is the way its words are put
together to form 
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