Conjunctions

Conjunctions serve to connect ideas within a sentence. There are at least three major types of conjunctions, coordinating, correlative, and subordinating. (Wikipedia, 2008)

Coordinating conjunctions, or "coordinators," join two or more things of equal syntactic importance. Examples include "and," "for." "or," "nor," "but," "yet," and "so."

Correlative conjunctions are conjunctions that always appear together in a sentence, such as "either...or," "both...and," "neither...nor," and "not (only)...but (also)." (Wikipedia, 2008) Usage examples include, "You either like football, or you don't." "Both Terry and Michelle are going to be there," "This weather is fit for neither man nor beast." and "Not only do we need to fill out our TPS reports, but also to fax them to the appropriate boss."

Subordinating conjunctions, also referred to as "subordinators," are conjunctions that create a dependent clause (a clause that does not express a complete thought and cannot stand on its own as a complete sentence). (Wikipedia, 2008) Many times these dependent clauses fulfill a function similar to an adverb. In such cases, they are called "adverbial dependent clauses" or simply "adverbial clauses."

Interjections

An interjection is a part of speech that has no specific grammatical function, such as a shout or exclamation, and is used to express emotion. The word "interjection" comes from the Latin words "inter," meaning "between," and "iacere," meaning "throw." (Wikipedia, 2008) Thus, the word literally means, "thrown between." Interjections usually begin a sentence and are usually followed by an exclamation point (!) or by a comma (,) if the feeling is somewhat less intense. Examples include "Oh!" "Wow!" "Golly!" "Huzzah!" "Hah!" "Eureka!," and so on.