You use the word “and” every day, hundreds, perhaps thousands of times. But have you really mastered this most ubiquitous of conjunctions? Turns out, there’s more to using “and” than you may realize.

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Conjunctions connect two or more words, clauses or sentences together. Words like ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘because’. They work a bit like this chain connects the gate to the fence. The fence keeps the tiger on ...