Found inside – Page 31For example, We were going to, but she pinched me again, so I stayed home. ... Always remember, when using a conjunction to join two sentences, use a comma ...
Featuring original illustrations by the author, Dictionary Stories is a giddy celebration of the beauty and flexibility of language. Jez Burrows opened the New Oxford American Dictionary and sat, mystified.
Found inside – Page 128As there are many conjunctions and connective phrases appropriated to the coupling of sentences , that are never employed in joining the members of a sentence ; so there are several conjunctions appropriated to the latter use , which are ...
Found inside – Page 91So . So should not be used as a subordinating conjunction . Sometimes so is used between the independent clauses of a compound sentence . Such a use requires a semicolon or period and capital letter as so has the same force as a ...
Found inside – Page 336The words for , so , yet , only , and else are also sometimes considered pure coordinating conjunctions . Since the ... Compound sentences with so a favorite pattern in crude writingare so loose - jointed as to be seldom useful in good writing .
Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects.