Usage of “AND”

Often we write compound sentences- combining multiple sentences into one. These sentences combined have to be clauses that can read out as a proper sentence alone. The most common word used to flue clauses is “AND”.

“I loved writing and I quit my job to pursue a career in writing”

I loved writing and that is why I quit my job to pursue a career in writing.

But there will be instances where we use “And” to join to give an ambiguous relationship between two clauses.

“Her book was listed as a best seller and she died in an accident.”

What do we infer from such a sentence? She died because her book was listed as a best seller?! No, right?

Changing this into the following will make the connection come out in a better way,

“Before her book was listed as a best seller, she died in an accident.”

“After her book was listed as a best seller, she died in an accident.”

Let’s take another example to understand this better.

“Her manager was replaced and she quit.”

Writing the above as one of the following will be a lot clearer and better.

“Before her manager was replaced, she quit”

“After her manager was replaced, she quit.”

“Her manager was replaced so she quit”

“Although her manager was replaced, she quit.”

 When you use 'and' to connect two sentences, we need to make sure they are grammatically equivalent.

"She was asked to drink and got to dance at the same time." is wrong.

"She was asked to drink and to dance at the same time" is right.