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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

Lists connected by coordinating conjunctions

You don’t always need to use a comma in a serial list, however. When every single element in the list is connected by a coordinating conjunction, there is no need for commas:

Michael and John and Sally are all going to the circus.

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