Question

The man quickly but carefully opened the oyster’s hard shell.
A. quickly
B. but
C. carefully
D. opened
I think the answer is B but i am not sure. Can you check this and explain what a conjunction exactly is.
Thanks!

Answer 1

You are correct. :-)

A conjunction joins two parts of a sentence together. A better example to describe this would be "Alice bought a calculator, and Ben bought a mouse." The conjunction "and" divides the sentence into two thoughts-- "Alice bought a calculator," and "Ben bought a mouse."

In your example, "but" is a subjunctive conjunction, so the distinction is less clear.

If it helps, an acronym for some VERY common conjunctions is FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or yet, so.

Answer 2

Study conjunctions here:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms.htm

I didn't see a question above. Why did you chose B?

Alex is mostly right about conjunctions, but there's no such thing as a 'subjunctive conjunction'! Subjunctive is one of the verb moods. All the FANBOYS are coordinating conjunctions.

Answer 3

Thanks

Answer 4

Issa B ;)