COORDINATORS

COORDINATORS (Coordinating conjunctions)

https://www.southeastern.edu/acad_research/programs/writing_center/handouts/pdf_handouts/commonconjunctions.pdf

A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects parts of a sentence.

Coordinating conjunctions coordinate or join two or more sentences, main clauses, words, or other parts of speech which are of the same syntactic importance. Also known as coordinators, coordinating conjunctions are used to give equal emphasis to a pair of main clauses

1. Coordinating conjunctions (Fanboys) They all have fewer than four letters. Be careful of the words then and now; neither is a coordinating conjunction, so what we say about coordinating conjunctions' roles in a sentence and punctuation does not apply to those two words.

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QUOTES

FANBOYS

FOR

I am not afraid of tomorrow, FOR I have seen yesterday and I love today! 

I have had my share of brawls (fist-fights), FOR I am someone who takes a stand 


AND

I am basically, intrinsically AND irresistibly a Democrat, John Steinbeck

Einstein developed a theory about space. AND it was about time too.

Do what you want AND say what you feel because those who mind don't matter AND those who matter don't mind.

It's understandable AND almost touching that we should expect our partners to unders-tand us without us having explained what's up.

Binomials with "and"

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

I was stabbed when I was 17. It was touch and go, and my lung collapsed, and I was in hospital for five days. It is part of my back story. (background information)

again and again, down and out, high and low, on and off, on and on (and on), over and over, loud and clear, touch and go  

Trinomials with "and"

I told her we’d bought a yacht and she fell for it hook line and sinker.  (believing sth. completely)

Sex, drugs and rock'n' roll”

NOR

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

BUT (YET)

Life is really simple, BUT we insist on making it complicated.

I may not be there yet, BUT I'm closer than I was yesterday 

I may be old, but / yet I can still ride a bike (yet)


I'm tired, BUT proud.

Trust, BUT verify.

Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, BUT (remember), you can't have a / the rainbow without (having) a little rain.

Marriage has many pains, BUT celibacy has no pleasures. Samuel Johnson

Old people are often impatient, but for what?  (ellision)

Love's a disease. But (it is) curable. (ellision)



Other uses of "but"

I can resist everything but temptation. (except for).

Everything changes but change (except for).


Nothing is permanent / constant but change. (except for).

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. (except for).

(NOTHING) BUT. (only, no es sino)

The world is nothing but change. 

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Life is but thought. (1. act of thinking, 2. purpose, 3. consideration, 4. reasoning)

Vanity is but the surface. Blaise Pascal

She is but a child (only)


There was nothing good on TV, but nothing! (used as a intensifier)


BUT FOR: 1. except for sth: The work was now complete, but for a final coat of paint. 2.  if something else or someone had not prevented it.

Lee would certainly have been included in the team, but for his recent injury.

I would travel more but for / except for lack of money.(if it were not for)

I would never have won but for your help (were it not)

CANNOT (HELP) BUT: to have no choice except to do something

You cannot help but like her.

As I look back over my career, I cannot but smile.

I cannot but agree with what you say (otherwise than)


BUTS (as noun)

You're going to bed now, and I don't want to hear any buts! (as a noun)

No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K. see no ifs, ands or buts.




OR

Everything starts with one step, OR one brick, OR one word or one day 

I'm not for OR against video - OR any medium OR style, for that matter 

I don't follow waves OR trends OR emotions 


There's no right OR wrong, success OR failure.

Binomials with "or"

I'm an all-or-nothing person. I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy. 

Love comes quicly; whatever you do, you can't stop falling. Sooner or later, this happens to everyone (Pet shop boys)

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you. Rita Moreno.


Trinomials with "or"

no ifs, ands, or buts

Grammar points about coordinators

As conjunctions, but and yet are interchangeable. One is often substituted for the other to avoid repetition, as in this sentence:

Many, many people here share these thoughts, yet nobody can say anything. But I’m saying something.

YET

TWO CONJUNCTIONS TOGETHER FOR EMPHASIS

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell