Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The little word “and,” we probably all know, is a conjunction. It connects things: “She is tall and thin ...

Conjunctions join together two different, but related, parts of a sentence. They can be words like 'and', 'but', 'if', 'when', and 'because'. For example: I like swimming and she likes dancing.

Sample sentences have long been a standard feature of many online and offline dictionaries. Starting today, Google Translate will also feature sentences that put translated words into context. Unlike ...