A conjunction is a joining/linking word.

It joins/links
word,phrases,sentences,ideas and things together.
The simple, little conjunction are called coordinating
conjunctions.
1) For
2) And
3) Nor
4) But
5) Or
6) Yet
7) so
Here are some example of coordinating conjunction in English and what they
do:
For
Presents rationale (they do not gamble or,smoke,for they are ascetics)
And
Presents non-contrasting item (s) or idea (s)
(they gamble and they smoke)
Nor
Presents a non-contrasting negative idea (they do not gamble, nor do they
smoke)
But
Presents a contrast or exception (they gamble, but they dont smoke)
Or
Presents an alternative item or idea (every day they gamble or they smoke)
Yet
Presents a contranst or exception (they gamble, yet they dont smoke)
So
Presents a consequence (he gambled well last night so he smoked a cigar to
celebrate)



Join words and groups of word of equal weight in a
sentence. There are six different pairs of correlative
conjunctions.
1) Eitheror
2) Not onlybut(also)
3) Neither..nor
4) Both..and
5) Whetheror
6) just asso
You either do your work or prepare for a trip to the office
Not only is he handsome,but he is also brilliant
Neither the basketball team nor the football team is doing
well
Both the cross country team and the swimming team are
doing well
Whether you stay or you go,its your decision
Just as many Americans love basketball,so many
canadians love ice hackey
A subordinating conjunctions (sometimes called a
dependent word or subordinator) comes at thee beginning
of a ssubrodinate (or Dependent) clause and establishes
the relatoinship between the dependent clause and the rest
of the sentence.It also turns the clause into something that
depends on the rest of the sentence for its meaning
He look to the stage as though he had been preparing for
this moment all his life
Because he loved acting, he refused to give up his dream
of being in the movies
unless we act now, all is lost


Notice that some of the subordinating
conjunctions in the table below-after, before,
since-are also prepositions, but as
subordinators they are being used to
subordinate the following clause to the
independent elemeat in seatencee
*after *if *though
*Although *if only *till
*As *in order that *unless
*As if *now that *until
*As long as *once *when
*As though *rather than *whenever
*Because *since *where
*Before *so that *whereas
*Even if *than *wherever
*Even though *that *while