Thursday, November 10, 2011

Transitional Words and Phrases

Transitional words and phrases are very important because they help move the reader along from one idea to another. To read more about transitions and see a list of transitional words and phrases, click on the link below.

Transitions from the Purdue OWL

Coordinating Conjunctions

Here is a list of COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS that can be used to join two INDEPENDENT CLAUSES and form a COMPOUND SENTENCE.


These are often called FANBOYS words because the first letter of each of the words spells out FANBOYS:

For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So