Page 5 - Lesson Note

2. When using a coordinating conjunction to connect two items, do not
use a comma.

 Example:
Tom walked the dog and grabbed the mail.

("Tom walked the dog" is an independent clause, but "grabbed the mail" is not.)

 Here are a few more examples of how to use a coordinating conjunction to
connect two items that are not independent clauses.

Incorrect: She likes apples, and bananas.

Correct: She likes apples and bananas.

Underline the Conjunction from the Poem( To be done in the class work
notebook)

Conjunctions

Once we must have
looked through the same window.
Even though we had yet to meet
an image of us together slowly developed.

An inevitable coincidence
began to move into place.
Until (only yesterday)
the camera
became a second window for us.

There is a real photograph now.
We are looking into
the lens, we’re smiling
as if we had always known.

Subordinating conjunctions

 A subordinating conjunction joins elements of an unparallel sentence
structure. These elements are usually a dependent clause and an independent
clause.