Coordinating Conjunctions

Conjunctions can be divided into two broad classes - coordinating and subordinating.

Coordinating conjunctions join pairs of clauses that are grammatically independent of each other.
Examples are: and, but, for, or, yet, so, nor, also, either--or, neither--nor etc.

·         Birds fly and fish swim.

·         I was annoyed still I kept quiet.

·         Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

·         There was little hope of success nevertheless they decided to perform the operation.

Words for repeated ideas can often be left out in the second of two coordinate clauses.

·         She smokes and drinks. (= -- and she drinks.)

·         She is clever but careless. (-- but she is careless.)