1. Sample Handmade Responses
to Hale’s Sin and Syntax,
Chapter 7-8, Conjunctions and Interjections
with corresponding citations from the chapter
Angelo State University
English 4361: English Grammar
Dr. Laurence Musgrove
Department of English and Modern Languages
February 5, 2013
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2. “Coordinate conjunctions, or the FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
coordinate words, phrases, and clauses of equivalent values” (113).

3. “Coordinate conjunctions, or the FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
coordinate words, phrases, and clauses of equivalent values” (113).

4. “If you wanna be a pro, don’t act as if you don’t know what you’re doing”
(119).

5. “The swapping of like, a preposition, for as or as if, both conjunctions, is one
case that only the grittiest grammarians continue to oppose” (119).

6. “In and of themselves, conjunctions offer little in the way of literary flash, but
they help to smooth prose, link ideas, and telegraph contradiction” (115).

7. “In speech, like is an interjection buys you a little time when your mind can’t
keep up with your mouth” (126).

8. “Different kinds of conjunctions join things in different ways” (113).

9. “Conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses… Conjunctions place
themselves at critical junctions in a sentence where they connect words and link
ideas” (113).

10. “…conjunctions place themselves at critical junctions in a sentence, where they
connect words and link ideas” (113). “You’ll most likely find interjections at the
beginning of a sentence, followed by a comma or an exclamation point” (122).

11. “…conjunctions…connect words and link ideas” (113). “…an interjection is a cry,
cluck, or sudden outburst” (122).

12. “Something ‘thrown between or among’ other things, an interjection is a cry,
cluck, or sudden outburst” (122).

13. “To the house constructed of the parts of speech, we must finally add
Interjections—the banging windows and bursting pipes that add excitement to
the story inside” (122).