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.
Coordinating conjunctions are used to join two or more words, phrases, or independent clauses. The two elements being joined must be grammatically equal or similar in both importance and structure. There are seven coordinating conjunctions in English.