Goats love to stay connected by messaging their friends on GOAT CHAT, but their messages are always confusing. Connect clauses using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to make sentences so ...

A conjunction is a word, or words, used to connect two clauses together. A subordinating conjunction is the word/words used to link two clauses together, a main clause and a subordinate clause. The ...

Subordinating conjunctions are a little more difficult to use, because they subordinate the verb. This means they upset the order of the sentence a little and send the verb to the end of the clause.

Khadija Attarabulsi from Libya writes: Would you please help me to learn and understand coordinating and subordinating conjunctions? I would be so grateful if you could explain them in full. Thank you ...

The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

Is it correct to start a sentence with a conjunction? Here is a query from a reader of this column. Sanjay Saralaya writes, “Can one start a sentence with words and phrases such as as, because and due ...