conjunctive
- adjective
- /kənˈdʒʌŋktɪv/
- Specialized
- Conjunctive words like and and but help link ideas in a sentence.
- conjunctive relation
- conjunctive link
- conjunctive devices
Examples
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"Notice the use of the disjunctive word "or" as opposed to the conjunctive word "and." 24.
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Conjunctive adverbs such as however, nevertheless, and moreover help provide transitions.
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So this is called the conjunctive normal form CNF.
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For this experiment, we focused on the processing of conjunctive relations between clauses within a single sentence.
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Temporal conjunctive links also play a key role in narratives.
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You have the "reasonableness" clause and the "warrants" clause, separated by the conjunctive "and."
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Items required the processing of conjunctive relations between two clauses that were either causally consistent or inconsistent.
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Similarly, TD children's conjunctive links were significantly more accurate across sentences and episodes of the story than those of the LI children.
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Conjunctive relations often link adjacent clauses, with causal relations being one of the strongest ways to connect descriptions of subsequent events.
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The present task represents an effective tool to study local comprehension monitoring and highlights the importance of conjunctive relations for maintaining textual coherence during reading.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
A word that joins words or phrases to show addition, like 'and'
Joined to other words or phrases by a joining word like and
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conjunctive comes from Latin parts con- 'with' and jungere 'to join', and it is like the English word join. So a conjunctive word in grammar is one that 'joins' parts of a sentence together.