The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such

I thought for turkey week, I would write a blog with some real grammar turkeys! Hope you get a chuckle or two…

Wow! Finally! We are at the last installment of the series about the parts of speech. Yup! And this post is about interjections. 

When we think about conjunctions (and who even does that!), we think about connecting words such as the FANBOYS conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet,  so) that we talked about last week.  However, there is another category of conjunctions: subordinating.

Say the word conjunction, and most people will respond with “and.” “And” is the most common conjunction. Conjunctions are connecting words. There are actually two kinds of conjunctions, coordinating and subordinating.

Usually, I see  prepositions defined as follows: “a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.” Please let me know if you can figure out what that means!