and
and
(ənd , STRONG ænd )1. conjunction
When he returned, she and Simon had already gone.
Between 1914 and 1920 large parts of Albania were occupied by the Italians.
I'm going to write good jokes and become a good comedian.
I'm 53 and I'm very happy.
2. conjunction
You use and to link two words or phrases that are the same in order to emphasize the degree of something, or to suggest that something continues or increases over a period of time.
[emphasis]Learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older.
Day by day I am getting better and better.
We talked for hours and hours.
He lay down on the floor and cried and cried.
3. conjunction
I waved goodbye and went down the stone harbour steps.
He asked for ice for his whiskey and proceeded to get drunk.
4. conjunction
You use and to link two statements when the second statement continues the point that has been made in the first statement.
You could only really tell the effects of the disease in the long term, and five years wasn't long enough.
The cure for bad teaching is good teachers, and good teachers cost money.
5. conjunction
You use and to link two clauses when the second clause is a result of the first clause.
All through yesterday crowds have been arriving and by midnight thousands of people packed the square.
6. conjunction
As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language.
Finally–and I really ought to stop in a minute–I wish to make the following recommendations.
7. conjunction
You use and at the beginning of a sentence to introduce something else that you want to add to what you have just said. Some people think that starting a sentence with and is ungrammatical, but it is now quite common in both spoken and written English.
Commuter airlines fly to out-of-the-way places. And business travelers are the ones who go to those locations.
8. conjunction
You use and to introduce a question which follows logically from what someone has just said.
'He used to be so handsome.'—'And now?'.
'Well, of course, they haven't won a football game.'—'And what would you expect?'.
9. conjunction
And is used by broadcasters and people making announcements to change a topic or to start talking about a topic they have just mentioned.
And now the drought in Sudan.
Football, and Aston Villa will reclaim their lead at the top of the English First Division.
10. conjunction
You use and to indicate that two numbers are to be added together.
What does two and two make?
11. conjunction
