Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many generations of students have had certain grammar “truths” drilled into their little heads. One is the “myth” that ...

Conjunctions are words which help link ideas in a sentence. They can join together words, parts of sentences and even whole sentences. They help to make writing flow. Jackie ate an ice cream. She ...

Subordinating conjunctions are words that help show relationships between ideas. They join a main clause and a subordinate clause. Words like 'because', 'although', 'if' and 'until' are common ...