2. Capitalize all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions ("as", "because", "although").
What's a subordinate conjunction again? I'm hoping my loophole is here somewhere.
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This is how I describe a subordinate conjunction: a word (or phrase, too, I think) that joins two parts of a sentence that are unequal. I find it helpful to distinguish the subordinate conjunctions from the coordinating conjunctions (
but, or, yet, so, for, and, nor) which
("which" or "that"? argh, I can never remember the rule) join parts of a sentence that are equal (eg. two subjects,
Anna and Kara love movies; two independent clauses
Anna loves movies,
but Kara loves opera, etc.). If you replace the coordinating conjunction "but" with a subordinate conjunction - eg.
Anna loves movies whereas Kara loves opera - one of the clauses, the latter, becomes subordinate to the other - one is an independent clause, one is dependent - unequal.
I don't think "up" is ever a subordinate conjunction? Always a preposition, I think.