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Conjunctions are connecting words joining two or more sentences, making them one sentence. They can be used to join phrases, clauses or words. Words:  Silver and Gold Phrase: Over the river and through the woods Clauses: Janine bought a dog and entered him in dog shows   COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS and, but, or, nor,… Read More »

A Verb is a ‘doing’ or an ‘action’ word or a ‘state of being. A physical action (e.g., to swim, to write, to climb). A mental action (e.g., to think, to guess, to consider). A state of being (e.g., to be, to exist, to appear). The most common verb is to be, for eg. [using the… Read More »

Verbs are often called “doing words”. Some verbs, however, give the idea of existence.