How prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections work in a sentence, with clinic-flavoured examples you can check against the HESI A2 Grammar subtest.
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You can spot a preposition and name the noun or pronoun it connects to the rest of the sentence.
You can tell coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions apart and punctuate each correctly.
You can identify an interjection and explain why it stands apart from the sentence's grammar.
What the lesson concludes
A preposition links a noun or pronoun to another word and always sits inside a prepositional phrase.
Coordinating conjunctions join equal elements, correlative conjunctions work in fixed pairs, and subordinating conjunctions attach a dependent clause to an independent one.
A comma follows a subordinating conjunction only when the dependent clause opens the sentence, never when it closes it.
Correlative pairs never mix, so neither pairs with nor and either pairs with or.
An interjection carries emotion, not grammar, and it does not connect to any other word in the sentence.