I'm still not tired although it is late.

The government won't vote on the bill until both parties agree.

Used to join subordinate clauses to main clauses:

Correlative: neither/nor either/or not only/but also.

Coordinating: and or but so yet for nor.

Why don't you use his car instead of mineĬonjunctions are the of the 8 parts of speech responsible for joining together words, phrases, or clauses.

Here are some examples of these words used in sentences: These are the types of pronouns with some examples: Pronouns replace nouns and they prevent us from repeating the noun in a sentence.

The boy picked up the toy under the sofa.

He is the leader of the conservative party.

In these example sentences with prepositions, the two words whose relationship is being expressed are underlined and the prepositions are in bold:

They precede a noun or pronoun.Ĭommons examples of prepositions are above, up, upon, at, before, behind, since, to, through, under, until, with, within, about, against, along, around, beside, between, down, during, below, by, except, for, from, in, into, like, near, of, off, on, toward. These show the relationship between two words or phrases in a sentence.

PrepositionsĪnother of the 8 parts of speech are prepositions. They have many other uses in a sentence so you should read about all the types of verbs further.

What part of speech is the word and