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Conjunctions and lists

Coordinating conjunctions

Lists in a sentence

Lists connected by coordinating conjunctions

Contrasting two things

Starting a sentence with the conjunctions and or but

Starting with because

Using neither nor

Correlative conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Contrasting two things

When you want to point out the differences between two things, you usually need to have a sentence structure something like:

"...blah blah, but blah blah..."

When you contrast two things using ‘but’, you usually need to put a comma before the ‘but’, like in this example sentence:

Giganotosaurus may have been larger than T-Rex, but T-Rex is still most people’s favourite dinosaur.

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