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.
In English grammar, coordination is the joining of words, phrases, or clauses of the same type to give them equal emphasis and importance. Also known as parataxis. The common conjunctions--and, but, for, or, nor, yet, and so--are structural words that join the elements of a coordinate construction.