These words can be used to join two sentence clauses together. Here are two sentences: Lilly ate an ice cream. She read a book. Using a conjunction they can be joined to make one sentence, like this: ...

When writing, it is often necessary to link ideas together. Conjunctions are linking words, such as 'and', 'because', 'then', 'however', that help your reader follow your train of thought, or see the ...