The most common coordinating conjunctions of English are and, or and but. They can be used to conjoin many different elements from single lexical items to phrases and sentences. Let us illustrate with the conjunction and.
Conjoined Noun Phrases
Mark and Diana are from New Zealand.
Conjoined Verbs
They ate and drank everything they wanted.
Conjoined Modals
She can and will help you.
Conjoined Adverbs
They entered slowly and nervously.
Conjoined Prepositions
The children ran in and out of the building.
Conjoined Adjectives
He was young and tall.
Combined Adjective Phrases
The client was really tired and really upset.
Conjoined Sentences
Robert watched TV, Simone cooked dinner, and the children did their homework.
The examples illustrate that conjunctions can combine many different elements. The order of the elements that are combined is usually flexible, but in certain cases such as in the phrase you and I, it is fixed. It is clear that conjunctions are a very useful part of language.
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