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00:00Conjunctions.
00:04The word that joins words or two parts of a sentence is called conjunction.
00:12Conjunctions only join. They do no other work.
00:19The words and, but, or are joining words or conjunctions.
00:27They are used to join words as well as sentences.
00:34And.
00:36And is a connecting word that tells you more.
00:41The bird can fly.
00:47The bird can hop.
00:55The bird can fly and hop.
00:59Here, and is used to join the words fly and hop and tells the bird can fly as well as hop.
01:08Let's look at another example.
01:11But.
01:14But is a connecting word that makes a contrast between two words or sentences.
01:22He hit the ball.
01:27He dropped the bat.
01:32He hit the ball but dropped the bat.
01:36Here, but is used to join the sentences with unlike ideas.
01:43Or.
01:45Or is a connecting word that suggests there is only one choice.
01:51We can eat pizza.
01:56We can eat a burger.
02:01We can eat pizza or burger.
02:05Here, or is used to give a choice between pizza and burger.