At 11:40 a.m. on 26 September 2010, West Yorkshire Police received reports of a man falling 80 feet (24 m) or 42 feet (13 m) into the River Wharfe, at the village of Thorp Arch near Boston Spa, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above.
Noun. 1. coordinating conjunction-the coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status. conjunction-the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction.
To join two independent. clauses, writers often use a comma followed by a coordinating conjunction. The basic structure. of a sentence that uses a coordinating conjunction is as follows: Subject + verb + object, [coordinating conjunction] subject + verb + object. Joining two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction creates a compound sentence. Examples: I like football , and I like hockey. The directions are complicated , but I am starting to understand them. In the first example, the coordinat ing conjunction is and.