Conjunction

Potential content

• Can indicate:
  • Coordination
  • Causality
  • Condition
  • Supposition
  • Inference
  • Transition
  • Concession
  • Alternative
  • Enumeration
  • Succession
  • Progression
• Can't be used alone.
• Can't be reduplicated.
• Can't serve as any sentence element.
• Important conjunctions:
  • 和
  • 及
  • 并且
  • 还是
  • 或者
  • 而
• Different ways to say 'and' (depending on the context)

Sources and further reading

• Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar (pp. 73 - 75)

Sources and further reading

• 外国人实用汉语语法(中英文对照) (pp. 123 - 131)