00:00 - [Voiceover] Hey, grammarians, today we're going 00:01 to be talking about correlative conjunctions and 00:04 I know this this looks like pretty ugly word, correlative, 00:07 like, it's kind of complicated looking but, 00:09 let's break it down. 00:11 This co part comes from the Latin, 00:12 cum, meaning with or, together... 00:17 And relative, well, we know that the word relative is, like, 00:20 your aunt or, your uncle or, your cousin is a relative. 00:23 So, we're just going to say, that 00:24 just means relative or, related. 00:28 So, correlative conjunctions, there 00:30 we see it, definitionally or, etymologically, 00:32 are related together in some way. 00:35 They're matched pairs; they're a matching set. 00:38 And this just means that, when you see one, it's 00:41 probably time to use the other. 00:43 In this video, we'll go through five of my favorites. 00:47 So, either/or, is a good pair to start off with. 00:50 And when you start a sentence with either or, either, 00:52 I don't know how you say it. 00:54 It sets up the expectation that you're going to have to 00:56 be choosing between two things, so, we're going to say, or, 00:59 later in the sentence, as in, what is reputed to 01:02 be Oscar Wilde's last words, either the 01:04 wallpaper goes, or I do. 01:08 The opposite of either/or is neither/nor. 01:13 So, either/or sets up this choice between two options and 01:17 neither/nor rejects both options, so, 01:20 neither Jia nor Becca liked Howard. 01:23 And I recognize that I say neither and 01:25 some of you say neither and there's a 01:27 whole George Gershwin song about that but, 01:28 let's just chalk it up to 01:29 my Midwestern American accent, how 'bout? 01:33 ♫ Either, either, neither, neither 01:36 ♫ Let's learn about some conjunctions 01:39 ♫ But oh, if we talk about the both and you use and, and oh, 01:47 ♫ If you learn to use conjunctions, that is grand, oh yes ♫ 01:53 Both Bigby and LaDoux were career criminals. 01:57 Why we're using both to indicate a 01:58 connection between two things and then we use and later in 02:02 the sentence to really firm that up. 02:06 As/so, is kind of an interesting one. 02:09 It's a little formal and it kind of 02:12 allows you to set up this relationship of 02:14 consequence, right, to say, if one thing is happening then, 02:18 another thing happens as a consequence, so... 02:22 As goes Kansas, so goes the nation. 02:26 So, you know, as one thing happens, 02:28 so must another thing happen, is 02:30 what this is trying to set up. 02:33 Whether and or, is similar to either and or, 02:37 except it has a, kind of, whiff of possibility about it. 02:43 Whether you like shrimp or chocolate, there's certain to 02:45 be something for you at the Veracruz food fair. 02:50 Right, because whether is, kind of, 02:51 setting up this possibility between these two options and 02:54 it doesn't really matter which one you choose. 02:56 It's just offering up possibilities. 02:59 And I would like to offer you the 03:01 possibility of checking out more of these 03:03 correlative conjunctions in our exercises. 03:06 So, stick around; you can learn anything. 03:09 David out.