Definition: 'And'

Statistics

• Length: 3 characters
• Syllables: 1

Usage Notes

• This can be used at the start of a sentence
• Can connect 2 sentences
• Connects 2 clauses

Grammatical Information

• Conjunction
• A conjunction joins words or, more frequently, phrases and clauses

Lexical Information

• One of the 220 words in the Dolch high frequency list
• One of the 850 words in Basic English
• In the top 2,000 words in the Brown Corpus
• Common word- this is one of the thousand words most frequently used in English.
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula