The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such

Dead words. What are dead words? The first time I ever heard about dead words was when my daughter came home from Ms. Settle’s seventh grade English class . . .

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.