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Today we're learning all about but...and or, and and, and not. If you haven't guessed it by now, this video is about conjunctions.

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00:03

[Coop and Dino singing]

00:13

The modern world is all about connections...

00:15

Roads connecting cities... [A busy road filled with cars]

00:16

Telephones connecting people...

00:18

Weird iPhone apps connecting people to their secret desire to have the ears and tongue of a dog... [Girl taking a selfie]

00:23

Yup.

00:24

Connections are everywhere.

00:25

Another thing that gets connected all the time?

00:27

Words.

00:28

But not through some cool Snapchat filter. [Girl using a snapchat filter]

00:30

Nah, words use conjunctions!

00:32

Conjunctions are “connecting words” because they're word that, well, connect other words

00:36

together.

00:37

But enough with the explaining – let's see some examples! [Dino giving conjunction examples]

00:40

But. And. Or. Not. For. So. Yet.

00:43

Conjunctions can connect two words together...

00:45

Like “Chocolate and vanilla.” [Boy holding an ice cream]

00:47

As well as two independent clauses or ideas together...

00:50

Like, “I see the glass as half full, COMMA BUT you see the glass as half empty.” [Two people looking at a glass]

00:54

But guess what?

00:55

There are actually special types of conjunctions, too.

00:58

Like correlative conjunctions, which are conjunctions that show up in pairs.

01:02

This includes conjunctions like “either” or “neither,” which suggest that one thing

01:06

doesn't exist without the other. [Man holding hot pizza slice and it turns to a blue slice]

01:07

For example, we might say to our pesky sibling, “Either you leave me alone or I tell mom

01:12

you're being a butt.”

01:13

Of course, we'd never say that. [Little brother pestering older sister]

01:15

We're civilized.

01:16

We'd say they're being a buttocks.

01:18

Another type of conjunction is a subordinating conjunction, which shows how one element of

01:22

a sentence is related to another.

01:24

Subordinating conjunctions include words like as if, before, how, if, because, unless, and

01:30

until.

01:31

For example, “Because I was hungry, I ate the cold pizza.” [Hand takes slice of cold pizza out of a fridge]

01:34

Which…wow.

01:35

What a noble act.

01:36

Someone give that guy a medal. [Guy given a medal]

01:38

As you've probably guessed, there are a whole lot of different types of conjunctions – but

01:42

they all serve the same purpose: to connect the different words and ideas in a sentence

01:46

in order to keep it making sense.

01:48

And if you disagree with that, then you're just being a stubborn buttocks. [Girl chasing little brother]

01:51

So civilized.

01:53

Time to take tea in the garden! [Man drinking tea in the garden]

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