Question

Questions 1–9: Identify the conjunctions in the following sentences. Label each one as coordinating, correlative, or subordinating.
1. I left my car at the garage, but I will pick it up tonight.

2. Andrews and McMillan were the first two engineers at the company.

3. I will take our visitors to the theater, provided that you buy the tickets.

4. Commuting may get bad because either rain or snow is expected tonight.

5. The Barkers will be pleased if their dinner is a success.

6. We won’t have the manuals on time unless we get them to the printer tomorrow morning.

7. Both typewriters and word processors are needed in many offices.

8. Richard will come early since he has to set up his projection equipment.

9. Rose will attend the conference, although she will arrive late.

Questions 10–14: Each of the following sentences contains an interjection, but the sentences are missing appropriate punctuation. Rewrite the sentences and add any missing punctuation.

10. Wow What are we going to do?

11. Goodness we’ll have to wait for Ann Marie

12. Well Why did you do such a thing?

13. Oh Elizabeth, please forgive me

14. Oh forget it We’re late already.

Answer 1

Answer:

Your answer would be as follows:

1) Coordinating conjunction (but)

2) Coordinating conjunction (and)

3) Subordinating conjunction (provided that)

4) Subordinating conjuction (because) and correlative conjunction (either or)

5) Subordinating conjunction (if)

6) Subordinating conjunction (unless)

7) Correlative conjunction (both ... and ...)

8) Subordinating conjuntion (since)

9) Subordinating conjunction (although)

10) Wow, what are we going to do ? (wow)

11) Goodness, we'll have to wait for Ann Marie (goodness)

12)Well, why did you do such a thing? (well)

13) Oh Elizabeth!, please forgive me (oh)

14) Oh forget it, we're late already (oh)

Explanation:

A conjunction is a word that joins words, phrases, clauses or sentences. There are three types of conjunctions: coordinating, correlative, or subordinating.

Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses which have similar grammatical structure (1; 2). On the contrary, subordinating conjunctions join a subordinate (dependent clause) to a main (independent clause). This is the case of 3; 4; 5; 6; 8 and 9.  Finally, correlative conjunctions are paired words since they join words, phrases or clauses which have a reciprocal or complementary relationship (4; 7).

As regards the second part of the question, an interjection is a word or phrase which is grammatically independent fron the words around it, and expresses feeling rather than meaning. As you can see (10; 12; 13 & 14), the interjections in the sentences are all set off with commas from the rest of the sentences. The word following the comma shall not begin with a capital letter because the interjection and this word are part of the same sentence.