Chapter Summary
Conjunctions, like prepositions, function as connectors in sentences. Conjunctions connect nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs as well as phrases, clauses, and sentences. Conjunctions, unlike prepositions, have no objects. Conjunctions are either coordinating, correlative, or subordinating. Although conjunctive adverbs are adverbs, they function as connectors.

Coordinating conjunctions include words such as and, or, nor, and but. Correlative conjunctions appear in pairs and include such words as both/and, either/or, and not only/but also. Subordinate conjunctions introduce dependent clauses and then join them to independent clauses. Conjunctive adverbs connect two independent clauses of equal importance.

Good writers are conscious of parallelism in their writing. Parallelism involves connecting similar grammatical parts in a sentence such as connecting nouns to other nouns and verbs to other verbs. Coordinating or correlative conjunctions join these parallel parts of speech.

Online Links

Online Stress/Anxiety Questionnaires

Mid-Columbia Medical Center
http://www.mcmc.net/wellsource/stress/quiz.htm

Well Connected Health Quizzes
http://www.selfhelpwarehouse.com/stressquiz.html

C-Health
http://chealth.canoe.ca/calculator.asp?which=stress

Test Anxiety Questionnaire
http://www.swt.edu/slac/StSkillsid/TstAnxty.htm

Anxiety Questionnaire
http://www.communitycarehospital.com/anxiety.html

Health

WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/

iVillageHealth
http://www.ivillagehealth.com/

National Institute of Health
http://www.nih.gov/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/

Medscape
http://www.medscape.com/

Bonus Exercise

Objective: Identify conjunctions.

1. Click on several of the health sites, and read an article about preventive medicine.
2. Working from the printout, choose two paragraphs. Underline the subordinating conjunctions.
3. Look for the incorrect use of the preposition like for the conjunctions as, as if, or as though. Rewrite the sentences using the proper conjunction.
4. Write a paragraph describing one item of new information that you learned. Use the active voice. Underline each conjunction.

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