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"conjunction"

By Richard Nordquist, About.com

Definition:

The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. See:

Etymology:

From the Greek, "joining together"

Examples:

  • "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
    (George Bernard Shaw)


  • "Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."
    (Joseph Wood Krutch)


  • "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
    (Marie Curie)


  • "I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
    (H. L. Mencken)


  • "There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
    (Adlai Stevenson)


  • "As it happens I am in Death Valley, in a room at the Enterprise Motel and Trailer Park, and it is July, and it is hot. In fact it is 119 degrees. I cannot seem to make the air conditioner work, but there is a small refrigerator, and I can wrap ice cubes in a towel and hold them against the small of my back."
    (Joan Didion, "On Morality")


  • "There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us."
    (Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure, 1991)


  • "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
    (Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts)

Pronunciation: cun-JUNK-shunAudio Link

Also Known As: connective

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