FANBOYS: FOR,AND,NOR,BUT, OR,YET,SO

There are only seven coordinating conjunctions in the English language, and they are easily remembered by the acronym FANBOYS: Coordinating conjunctions signify the relationship between two independent clauses (IC), allowing the writer to specify meaning. In other words, when we construct a compound sentence using a coordinating conjunction, we ask our readers to understand that the two ideas logically relate to each other in the way in which we specify:

Logic  Coordinating Conjunctions  Addition  and  Opposition, Contrast, Concession  but, yet  Cause  for  Result or Effect  so  Choice, Option, Alternative  or, nor

In addition to signifying a specific relationship between ideas, the compound structure also tells the reader that the ideas in these clauses are valued equally: one idea is no more important than the other. I may choose to indicate contrast between ideas by using the coordinating conjunction "but," wanting my reader to see the difference(s) between my ideas, yet I am also indicating to my reader that each independent clause should be equally valued.

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C A M P U S C O M E D Y : I am not your walking dictionary

When I was still studying in English department in 1993, I had one favorite lecturer. Her name was Mrs.Diah Kristina. One day when we are joining her SPEAKING class she ordered us one by one to tell his or her most interesting experience in our life. One of my friend with a little fluency and knowledge of English vocabulary stood anxiously and unconfidently in front of the class. He had just been starting his story but whenever he forgot or hesitated about the correct diction and spelling of an English word or expression he kept on asking to my lecturer. At the first and the second request of him, my lecturer wisely gave him the answer. But at the third time when he asked to my lecturer simply she said, “MY DEAR STUDENT, I AM NOT YOUR WALKING DICTIONARY”.

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