Right now, our conservationists are working tirelessly to save wild animals and wild places across four continents and four oceans.
Conjunctions are words used to connect phrases and clauses. Between 25 and 40 months, children begin to use the conjunctions and and because (Owens, 2001) to join phrases and clauses. And is the most frequently used conjunctive form for children in the three- to five-year age range.
Parenthetical phrases are used to add information to a sentence that is not vitally important, yet it may be considered add some specific information. A parenthetical phrase can either be one word or many, but the phrase needs to be set off with punctuation. Any form of punctuation can be used to create a parenthetical phrase so long as there is a break in the sentence.