The words connecting the parts of a compound subject or of a compound
predicate are called +Conjunctions+ (Lat. _con_, or _cum_, together, and
_jungere_, to join).
A conjunction may connect other parts of the sentence, as two word
modifiers--A dark _and_ rainy night follows; Some men sin deliberately
_and_ presumptuously.
It may connect two phrases; as, The equinox occurs in March _and_ in
September.
It may connect two clauses, that is, expressions that, standing alone,
would be sentences; as, The leaves of the pine fall in spring, _but_ the
leaves of the maple drop in autumn.
+Interjections+ (Lat. _inter_, between, and _jacere_, to throw) are the
eighth and last part of speech.
_Oh! ah! pooh! pshaw!_ etc., express bursts of feeling too sudden and
violent for deliberate sentences.
_Hail! fudge! indeed! amen! _etc., express condensed thought as well as
feeling.
Any part of speech may be wrenched from its construction with other words,
and may lapse into an interjection; _as, behold! shame! what!_
Professor Sweet calls interjections _sentence-words_.
Two or more connected subjects having the same predicate form a +Compound
Subject+.
Two or more connected predicates having the same subject form a +Compound
Predicate+.
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