✱✱✱While coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, so, for, yet) can be used to connect independent clauses of equal importance in a sentence, subordinating conjunctions are used to connect clauses with less important, supporting information to the main, or most important, clause of the sentence.
Unlike independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions, subordinate, or “dependent,” clauses, which begin with subordinating conjunctions, cannot stand alone.
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Subordinating conjunctions show the relationships between main and subordinate clauses. |
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