CONTINUATIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

Synonyms:

conjunction; conjunctive; connective; continuative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("continuative" is a kind of...):

closed-class word; function word (a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continuative"):

coordinating conjunction (a conjunction (like 'and' or 'or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents)

subordinate conjunction; subordinating conjunction (a conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause)