Temporal, Conditional and Causal Conjunctions | Grammar and Punctuation

Elizabeth was pretty yet awkward. Did you notice that I included a conjunction in that sentence? I used the conjunction "yet" to link in ideas across that sentence. Hi everyone, this is Winnie or Miss Tang. A conjunction is a word that's used to connect words, ideas, phrases, and clauses together. It's used to build complex sentences, and it also helps us convey interesting and compelling messages. Today we are learning to use temporal, conditional, and causal conjunctions. This is because we want to write interesting and engaging sentences that connect and link ideas and messages in the text. Our success criteria today includes: Great is I can recognize temporal, conditional, and causal conjunctions. Amazing is if you can write sentences with these conjunctions. Fabulous, can you describe these conjunctions and the impact that they might have on the reader? And can you explain the purpose of including these types of conjunctions in your sentences? With temporal or time conjunctions. The reason why authors might use this is because they are trying to communicate when events are happening in the story. And we can tell when they're using these conjunctions because they use words like first, next, finally, before, after, then, suddenly, or words like meanwhile, when, since, until. This is an example from a narrative that I have written called Amber and the Browbeating Bully. And this is actually a prequel to the book that my friend and I are writing. Here are some examples of temporal conjunctions. They had one more practice before their first cheerleading competition. So the use of first is to tell us the time. So this is the very first time that they are doing this cheerleading competition. They or it had been happening since the beginning of the year. So we're telling the audience when and how often it has been happening. Since the beginning of the year. Conditional conjunctions tell us the conditions or the possibilities, and usually authors use words such as however, although, unless, if. The reason why they use these conjunctions is because they're trying to describe the condition that needs to be met for something else to happen. An example would be, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. Causal conjunctions. Show the cause and effect relationships. Some examples of words would be "as a result," "because," "due to," "so." The reason why authors use this is to introduce the cause, the reason, or to give an explanation for an action within a sentence. Here's an example: "It grants you wishes, so you'd better choose wisely." Okay, now it is your turn. Can you find temporal, conditional, and causal conjunctions in the book that you are reading? Can you write your own sentences using temporal, conditional, and causal conjunctions? Here is my grammar and punctuation playlist right here. See you in my next video. Bye!