Conjunctions - Free ESL EFL Resources for Teachers and Students on Connectors, Connectives, Coordinating, Subordinating, Coordinate, and Split - interactive worksheets, printables, lesson plans, quizzes, exercises, activities, games

Conjunctions are words used to connect sentences, clauses or words. For a better understanding of what conjunctions are, please surf to the websites listed below. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the definitions, classifications or interactive exercises are located, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page.

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes, exercises, worksheets, printables, and lesson plans in conjunctions from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific page where these resources are located, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the activities and exercises listed below, these sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

Notes:

“The Truth About Conjunctions as Sentence-Starters” (Michigan Bar Journal, August 2010) by Mark Cooney: Past and present justices of the US Supreme Court – Chief Justice Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Ginsburg, Alito, Sotomayor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo, and Thurgood Marshall -- use “But” and “And” to start some of their sentences.

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