coordinating conjunction
noun
: a conjunction (such as and or or) that joins together words or word groups of equal grammatical rank
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In these cases, a little knowledge about coordinating conjunctions can be dangerous.
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June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
But there’s another coordinating conjunction that causes even more subject-verb-agreement problems: or.
—June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
But there’s another coordinating conjunction that causes even more subject-verb-agreement problems: or.
—June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 26 Sep. 2019
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