connectives words, A connective is a word or a group of words tives phrases or clauses. In this chapter four types will be discussed. They are: coordinato relative pronouns, and transitional words or phrases. subotdinxm 1. Coordinators A coordinator is also called a coordinating conjunct Coordinators join sentence parts that are syntactically equs. words to words, phrases to phrases, and clauses to clauses. There are two kinds of coordinators or coordinatl conjunctions: simple conjunctions and correlative conjunctions 1.1 Simple conjunctions Simple conjunctions are and (shows addition, r (shows reason), but, yet, or, nor, not (show contrast). Some phras like along with, as well as, and rather than may also act coordinating conjunctions. Following are examples o sentences