At additive conjunctions are words that link two terms or two clauses with the same function, establishing addition relationship between them. When clauses can be independent of each other, but are linked by conjunction, they are called coordinated clauses. The conjunctions that link these independent clauses are the coordinating conjunctions. So we have the additive coordinative conjunctions to express the relation of addition, addition, between two clauses (or even between two terms that exercise the same function in the sentence).
Main additive conjunctions
As already exposed, additive conjunctions bring a list of ideas that add up and complement each other, which can be either in the sense positive how much in the sense negative. Therefore, it is possible to point out two frequently used additive conjunctions: and (for a positive sense) and nor (for negative sense).
It is also possible to use two or more words together to play the same conjunction role. They are called conjunctive phrases additives. Let's know some examples:
- and
- nor
- as well as
- not only (...) but [also]
- not only (...) but [also]
- not only (...) but [still]
Read too:Use of the comma before the conjunction "but"
Use of additive conjunctions in sentences
Now that we've learned the concept and what additive conjunctions are, we'll look at its use in a few sentences. Note that they link one sentence to another, adding meaning to the ideas in each utterance.
- Vinicius was about to arrive and Henrique was ready.
- I didn't go to the theater nor read the play.
- she read a lot of books as well as via many series.
- Not only we did the project How still we deliver everything ahead of schedule.
- not only found the restaurant very well located but also liked the food very much.
Note that in the latter case, although the conjunctionbut, which originally meant opposition, the context indicates that the established relationship is actually one of addition.
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ATTENTION: It is not customary to use conjunctions and and nor together. The ideal is to use only nor when the context asks for. So the second example is “I didn't go to the theater nor read the piece", without adding the conjunction and before the conjunction nor.
See too: What are the meanings that conjunctions can have?
solved exercises
question 1 (UERJ)
Read the following text:
I look at my hands
I look at my hands: they just aren't weird
Because they're mine. But it's so weird to stretch them
So, slowly, like these deep-sea anemones...
To close them, suddenly,
Fingers like carnivorous petals!
I only catch, however, with them, this impalpable food of time,
That sustains me, and kills, and that secretes the thought
How spiders weave their webs.
to which world
Do I belong?
In the world there are rocks, baobabs, panthers,
Singing waters, wind blowing
And above, the clouds improvising incessantly.
But none of this says: "I exist".
Because they just exist...
Meanwhile,
Time begets death, and death begets the gods
And, full of hope and fear,
We officiate rituals, we invent
Magic words,
We do
Poems, poor poems
that the wind
It mixes, confuses and disperses in the air...
Neither in the sky star nor in the sea star
This was the end of Creation!
But then,
Who eternally weaves the plot of such old dreams?
Who asks — in me — this interrogation?
(Mário Quintana)
In addition to functioning as a link between terms of the same value, the connective and has been used in the text sometimes to express the effect of continuous acceleration.
This connector was used to produce such an effect on:
a) “Who sustains me, and kills, and who secretes thought” (v. 7)
b) "And on high the clouds improvising without ceasing." (v. 13)
c) “And full of hope and fear,” (v. 18)
d) “Mixes, confuses and disperses in the air...” (v. 24)
Answers
Alternative to, because the repetition of the additive conjunction and generates the effect of continuous acceleration, especially considering the context in which it was used.
By Guilherme Viana
Portuguese teacher
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
VIANA, William. "Additive conjunctions"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/conjuncoes-aditivas.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
