Coordinating conjunctions | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians alright today I want
to start talking about conjunctions and
conjunctions are this part of speech
that has a very particular function in
English and what it does conjunctions
unite words phrases and clauses let me
let me show you an example so if you
want to talk about two things you could
say you could say peanut butter and
jelly or if we're going to paraphrase
Eddie Izzard I might offer you the
choice of cake or death you could also
describe something as being sad but true
and these three are the most commonly
used conjunctions because I would be
remiss if I didn't mention the the
seminal conjunction song that got me
into the grammar game in the first place
conjunction junction which I think was
written by Jack Sheldon or performed by
Jack Sheldon in like 1973 Schoolhouse
Rock it's great look it up but what I'm
going to talk about today is a mnemonic
or a memory aid called fanboys you may
have heard this before fanboys and this
is how we remember the coordinating
conjunctions and and you don't need to
worry about the name coordinating
conjunctions we'll get to that later for
now just remember fanboys for and nor
but or yet and so
fanboys we'll go through how each one of
these are used over in the next screen
follow me downstairs and then so we've
got four and nor but or yet and so
and each of them have a different basic
function so let's let's review them four
has this connotation you can use it the
way you would use a word like since or
because as in I do not eat buttons for
they are not food you can see I'm
combining these these two little
sentences using the word for we're using
this this for to explain my reasoning I
do not eat buttons because they are not
food and for is a simpler way to express
that the conjunction and very elemental
very
conjunction combines one thing with
another as in the kangaroo robbed the
bank and torched the saloon rather
criminal kangaroo and you can see we're
using an to combine these two ideas
right we're saying this thing happened
this thing also happened they happened
together nor is similar to and but we
use it to combine untrue things we use
it to express negation so if I were
going to talk about an angry tree spirit
for example just to pull an example out
of a hat I could say she won't leave her
tree nor will she speak with humans we
use but to express exceptions as in we
used every building material but chewing
gum right chewing gum is the exception
to every building material we use or as
a conjunction to choose between options
as in would you rather have a pet bear
or a pet giraffe we ask the hard
questions in Khan Academy yet is kind of
like but except that we use it to
express unexpected things so I'm just
going to write to the contrary as if I
were Sherlock Holmes hollering at a
confused Watson and to the contrary my
good man Watson this is how we use yet
I'll show you I want to leave yet I
cannot so it sets up this kind of push
and pull dynamic in a sentence is what
yet does we set the expectation I want
to leave and yet here's the unexpected
what I'd say an ironic part yet I cannot
I want to leave but unfortunately or but
unexpectedly when you would say but
unexpectedly just use yet and finally
the last part of fanboys so shows
consequences Dougal was allergic to
sheep so he skipped the wool festival
right so so we're trying to set up that
as a consequence of the first clause
Dougal being allergic to sheep the thing
that follows is because of that he
decided to skip the wool festival this
is fanboys for and nor but or yet
so these are all covered in the
exercises you can learn anything Dave it
out