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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

Using neither...nor

This isn’t used that much in contemporary (modern) English, but if you want to use it, make sure you do so correctly. Use it when you want to say two negatives about something. So say I want to say that the dinosaur Diplodocus was not fast and was not smart. These are two negatives, so I can use a ‘neither...nor’ statement:

Diplodocus was neither smart nor fast.

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