What is/are the conjunctions in the following sentence?: We cannot leave yet, because we are still waiting on Matt and Sam.

1 Answer
Mar 17, 2016

conjunctions:
#color(white)("XXX")#because
and
#color(white)("XXX")#and

Explanation:

because joins the two sentences:
#color(white)("XXX")#"We can not leave yet"
and
#color(white)("XXX")#"we are still waiting on Matt and Sam"
into a single sentence.

and joins the two nouns
#color(white)("XXX")#"Matt"
and
#color(white)("XXX")#"Sam"
into a single noun phrase.