English coordinators

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English coordinators (also known as coordinating conjunctions) are conjunctions that connect words, phrases, or clauses with equal syntactic importance. The primary coordinators in English are and, but, or, and nor.

Syntactically, they appear between the elements they connect, and semantically, they express additive, contrastive, or alternative relationships between those elements.