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.
By Richard Nordquist. Definition: A paired conjunction (such as not only. . . but also) that links balanced words, phrases, and clauses. The elements connected by correlative conjunctions are usually parallel --that is, similar in length and grammatical form. Each element is called a conjoin.