Definition:
A conjunction that joins two similarly constructed and/or syntactically equal words or phrases or clauses within a sentence. The coordinating conjunctions are and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet. See Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses. Compare with Subordinating Conjunction.
Examples:
- "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been."
(William Hazlitt) - "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
(Albert Einstein) - "My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."
(Jack Benny) - "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
(George Carlin) - "The mind plays tricks on you. You play tricks back! It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting."
(Pee Wee in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, 1985) - "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass."
(Rodney Dangerfield) - "You have the American dream! The American dream is to be born in the gutter and have nothing. Then to rise and have all the money in the world, and stick it in your ears and go 'PLBTLBTLBLTLBTLBLT!' That's a pretty good dream."
(Eddie Izzard) - "Every Englishman must have a hobby. Some like to collect the stamp, some like to make the jam, but the most fun is to kill a little animal with a shotgun or rip them up with wild dog."
(Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat)
Pronunciation: ko-ORD-i-nate-tng kun-JUNK-shun
