Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions are important elements of language that join clauses together to form complex, well-constructed sentences. Coordinating conjunctions like "and", "but", and "or" connect independent clauses, while subordinating conjunctions like "if", "because", and "when" introduce dependent clauses and show their relationship to independent clauses. Examples are provided to illustrate the proper uses of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

1. Subordinating &
Coordinating
Conjunctions

2. Importance
 Subordinating & coordinating
conjunctions are important because they
join different clauses to form long, well
constructed sentences.

3. What is a clause?
 An independent clause is a phrase that can stand
alone as it’s own sentence.
 The car is red.
 A dependent clause is a phrase that needs to have
another one in order to make it a complete sentence.
 When the kids drove the car.

4. When to use Coordinating
Conjunctions
 Use it to join independent clauses,
phrases, and individual words.
 “And”, “but”, “or”, “nor”, “so”, or “yet” can
be used.

5. Examples of Coordinating
Conjunctions
 She picked daffodils and sunflowers,
which are usually yellow.
 I wanted to go over my friends house
but I had a lot of homework.

6. When to use Subordinate
Conjunctions
 Introduces a dependent clause and shows
the relationship between the dependent
and independent clauses.
 Common conjunctions are “after”,
“although”, “as”, “because”, “before”,
“how”, “if” and “once”.

7. Examples of Subordinating
Conjunctions
 If you do your homework, you can play
with the dog.
 They lost the football game because of
the bad weather.

8. Very Nice!

9. Citations
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