and
/ˈænd/ conjunction A1- Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
- Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
- Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. · I'd been walking since sunrise, and I was hungry.· 2007: Jimmy Carr, 8 out of 10 Cats, 13th day of July episode Romance is dead; men killed it, and made women clean up the mess.
- Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
- Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
- Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
- Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
- Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: 'and so what?'.
From the library
“If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—‘He who has a partner has a master.’ But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
Morrel,” exclaimed the young seaman, with tears in his eyes, and grasping the owner’s hand, “M.
Morrel, I thank you in the name of my father and of Mercédès.”
Go to your father; go and see Mercédès, and afterwards come to me.”
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