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.
Be careful of the words then and now; neither is a coordinating conjunction, so what we say about coordinating conjunctions' roles in a sentence and punctuation does not apply to those two words.) When a coordinating conjunction connects two independent clauses, it is often (but not always) accompanied by a comma: Ulysses wants to play for UConn, but he has had trouble meeting the academic requirements.