Coordinating Conjunctions Explained

This video tutorial reviews conjunctions, focusing on coordinating conjunctions. It explains their role in joining words, phrases, and sentences, and provides examples and punctuation rules. The tutorial includes practice exercises to help students identify and use coordinating conjunctions correctly. Students will retake a conjunctions quiz after practicing.

What is the main focus of this week's lessons?

• Adjectives

• Nouns

• Conjunctions

• Prepositions

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Which of the following is NOT a coordinating conjunction?

• Yet

• For

• Because

• And

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CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

What does the acronym FANBOYS stand for?

• For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

• For, And, Not, But, Or, Yet, So

• For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yes, So

• For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, Since

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CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

In the sentence 'My dog enjoys being bathed, but he hates getting his nails trimmed,' what is the role of 'but'?

• Joining two subjects

• Joining two objects

• Joining two sentences

• Joining a subject and an object

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CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

When a coordinating conjunction joins two sentences, what punctuation is needed?

• A comma

• A period

• A semicolon

• No punctuation

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CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

In the sentence 'Calvin and Crystal refuse to eat peas,' what is the role of 'and'?

• Joining two sentences

• Joining two objects

• Joining two subjects

• Joining a subject and an object

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CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

In the sentence 'You can eat your cake with a spoon or fork,' what is the role of 'or'?

• Joining two sentences

• Joining two objects

• Joining two subjects

• Joining a subject and an object

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CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

In the sentence 'Tomato and onion are my favorite pizza toppings,' what is the role of 'and'?

• Joining a subject and an object

• Joining two sentences

• Joining two objects

• Joining two subjects

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CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

In the sentence 'I am allergic to cats, but I have three of them,' what punctuation is needed?

• A semicolon

• A period

• A comma

• No punctuation

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

What should you remember to do on the quiz?

• Ignore conjunctions

• Capitalize personal pronoun 'I'

• Forget punctuation

• Use lowercase for 'I'

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CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A