Grammar for Everyone - Barbara Dykes 2007

8 Conjunctions - Coordinating conjunctions
Introduction
Part II The parts of speech

Come and join us!

Definition: This word is from the Latin con meaning ’together’ and jungere meaning ’to join’. A conjunction joins two or more parts of speech of a similar kind or two or more parts of a sentence.

Coordinating conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions such as and, but and or are used to join two or more different things.

For example:

Bread and butter, tea or coffee.

I went to the bowling alley but (and) my brother stayed at home.