Conjunction Confusion: Without and Unless

Summary
A short lesson about a common confusion between a conjunction and a preposition. When to use without and unless.

Objectives
• to review the concepts of conjunction and preposition;

• to introduce the preposition without and the conjunction unless;

• to test students? knowledge and understanding with a short exercise.

Suggested Grades
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade

Excerpt
Conjunction or preposition? How can you tell the difference between these two confusing parts of speech? Let?s do a quick review.

A conjunction is a joining word. It joins words, phrases or clauses together.

A preposition is a word or group of words that connects a noun or pronoun to other words in a sentence. Prepositions can tell us four things:

1. location
2. direction
3. time
4. relationship

Prepositions begin a prepositional phrase and they have an object.

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