Conjunction words: So, Because, Before, After, Except

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Subordinating Conjunctions - So, Because, Before, After and Except

Subordinating Conjunction Words : So, Because, Before, After and Except

Subordinating Conjunctions : So, Because, Before, After, Except

"Make relationship between two clauses / sentences"

Subordinating Conjunction words So, Because, Before, After and Except comes at the beginning of a Subordinate or Dependent Clause and establishes the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence.

These words (So, Because, Before, After, Except) also turns the clause into something that depends on the rest of the sentence for its meaning.

Common Subordinating Conjunctions are:

Because

Before

After

Except

Uses of Conjunction Words: (So, Because, Before, After, Except)

Use of Subordinating conjunction word 'So'

Subordinating Conjunction word 'So' is used when you are emphasizing a fact by saying what the result of it is.

Examples:

• John works so that he can pay his bills.
• There weren't enough beds, so I had to sleep on the floor.
• Put your keys in your bag now so that you don’t forget them.
• Waiter ignored his serving, so I got a spoon and ate it myself.

Use of Subordinating conjunction word 'Because'

Subordinating Conjunction word 'Because' is used to denotes the closets causal conjunction.

Examples:

• I'm staying in because it's raining.
• He went to bed because he was tired.
• The picnic is canceled because rain is forecast.
• She goes to the tennis club because she likes to play tennis.

Use of Subordinating conjunction word 'Before'

Subordinating Conjunction word 'Before' is used for saying how much time passes until something happens.

Examples:

• We moved to London before the war.
• I'm going out before the rain starts.
• Check your passport before you travel.
• Several years went by before I realized that Jack had lied to me.

Use of Subordinating conjunction word 'After'

Subordinating Conjunction word 'After' is used when a particular time has passed, or when an event or action has ended.

Examples:

• I'm going out after the football has finished.
• After you'd left, I got a phone call from Stuart.
• This message arrived after everyone had gone home.
• He only suggested it after I mentioned it at the meeting.

Use of Subordinating conjunction word 'Except'

Subordinating Conjunction word 'Except' was once in good use as a Conjunction.

Examples:

• He looks handsome except when he sleeps.
• Except one dies, one can not see heaven.
• The stores will be open daily except Sundays.
• I would like to bail him out, except I don’t have any money.

Note: In modern English its place has been taken by unless.

Most common words used as subordinating Conjunctions are:

Common Subordinating Conjunction words:

As	If	As if	If only	As long as
Either	Even	Even if	Even so	Even Though
How	However	In case	In order that	In spite of
Since	Than	Rather than	Till	Until
That	Now that	Though	Although	As though
So	Because	Before	After	Except
Only	Once	Otherwise	Neither	Unless
What	Where	When	Whenever	Whereas
While	Whilst	Without	Wherever	Whether

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