Coordinating conjuctions

They allow you to join two ideas of equal importance. They also allow you to show that two ideas are related in a specific way:

There are 7 main co-ordinating conjunctions. They show different relationships:

• for (adds a reason),
• and (adds a similar idea),
• nor (connects two negative ideas),
• but (adds equal different ideas),
• or (adds two equal ideas),
• yet (adds two equal ideas with a surprising result), and
• so (adds a result)