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.
There are only seven coordinating conjunctions in the English language, and they are easily remembered by the acronym FANBOYS: Coordinating conjunctions signify the relationship between two independent clauses (IC), allowing the writer to specify meaning.