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======Conjunctions, linking words and expressions====== | ======Conjunctions, linking words and expressions====== |
=====Introduction===== | =====Introduction===== |
<html><p><img id="1541" style="width: 150px;" alt="Image" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1541_1dce550ee01fa459d9a54bc55ee8590f.jpg"> <strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>Now that</span><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'> it's summer, we can swim every day.</span></strong><br></p></html> | <html><p><a class="various" href="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/87_138627ee25e69c5fbdff3dbed299a336.jpg" rel="image_show"><img width="425" height="281" id="87" style="width: 168px; height: 114px;" alt="open-plan office bureau open space employees employés busy occupé working work travailler computers ordinateurs desks" src="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/87_138627ee25e69c5fbdff3dbed299a336.jpg"></a> <strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; ;'>As</span><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; ;'> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; ;'>I have a lot of work to do before the summer holidays, I don't have time to attend the seminar and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">neither </span>do my colleagues.</span></strong><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; ;'> </span><br></p></html> |
| =====Definition===== |
| <html> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>These words and expressions have different meanings and uses but they can all be used as conjunctions.</span></b></p> <br></html> |
=====Construction===== | =====Construction===== |
<html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>These are usually placed at the beginning of a sentence or in the middle of a sentence to introduce a clause. For example:<!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">In order to </span>increase productivity, we're opening a new plant.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We're opening a new plant <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">in order to </span>increase productivity.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Instead of </span>employing more people, we should work longer hours for a few weeks.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We should work longer hours for a few weeks <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">instead of</span> employing more people.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Depending on the expression, it can be followed by, for example, a noun or gerund, a bare infinitive or a subject and verb.</span></b></p> |