The knowledge we have of the mother tongue makes us aware that it, through the assumptions recommended by grammar, provides different resources to formulate our thoughts and thus deliver our daily speeches, either through orality or through of writing. Among such features emerge the calls grammatical classes, which in turn encompass all ten of which we are already aware - among them, the conjunctions. Thus, when we study some of these classes, we learn, among other details, that they play a fundamental role in a given prayer context. In their case, of conjunctions, we are aware that such attribution is conditioned to the fact of connecting, linking terms inherent in one or another clause.
Thus, when we make use of the conjunctions, we are aware that they, like prepositions, represent elements of connection, of connection. Thus, it must be stated that they (the conjunctions) are characterized as those words that link clauses or similar terms of a clause, coordinating or subordinating one another.
Once coordinated, such conjunctions are classified as additive, adversative, conclusive, alternative and explanatory. Now subordinating, it is worth emphasizing that they are classified as conditional, causal, temporal, concessive, consecutive, conformative, among others. Thus, about them, the subordinates, we know that they are somewhat complex, a factor that makes many users just memorize them.
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Given this reality, even to curb this practice, we present in this conversation the different meanings occupied by conjunctions, since the same conjunction, depending on the context in which it is used, can assume different roles, or better, classifications different. In this sense, let's look at some of the examples to just help you in the moment of proper classification:
We did the research likeasked the teacher.
The conjunction, in this case, represents the sense of conformity, being classified as conformative.
you are educated like your sister.
Here, it already has the sense of comparison, classifying itself as comparative.
Like it rained a lot, we couldn't go to the movies.
In this context, it denotes the sense of cause, receiving the classification of causal.
Since If you bring your sister, you can spend the weekend here.
In this case, the conjunction conveys an idea of condition, which is why it is classified as conditional.
I live here since that I was born.
The same conjunction, above representing the idea of cause, here it denotes the idea of time, thus classifying itself as temporal.
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters