English-2
Grade-8
Easy

Question

Read the following sentence and find out which type of conjunction the underlined ones are.
Marco writes better than I do.

  1. Coordinating
  2. Subordinating
  3. Correlative
  4. None of the above

hintHint:

Conjunction is a word to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g., and, but, if)

The correct answer is: Subordinating


    As a subordinating conjunction, 'than' joins a subordinate clause to main clause, which is a clause that can be used as simple sentence by itself. Here is an example of the subordinating conjunction than doing what it does: 'Marco writes better than I do'. 

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