Coordinating conjunctions coordinate or join two or more sentences, main clauses, words, or other parts of speech which are of the same syntactic importance. Also known as coordinators, coordinating conjunctions are used to give equal emphasis to a pair of main clauses.
As there are only seven of these words, there are just a few rules for using coordinating conjunctions correctly:
In the following examples, the coordinating conjunctions have been italicized for easy identification.