(2) What words, word groups, etc., they connect.
Caution.
In classifying them, particular attention must be paid to the meaning of the word. Some conjunctions, such as nor, and, because, when, etc., are regularly of one particular class; others belong to several classes. For example, compare the sentences,—
1. It continued raining, so that I could not stir abroad.—Defoe
2. There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour.—Emerson
3. It was too dark to put an arrow into the creature's eye; so they paddled on.—Kingsley
In sentence 1, so that expresses result, and its clause depends on the other, hence it is a subordinate conjunction of result; in 2, so means provided,—is subordinate of condition; in 3, so means therefore, and its clause is independent, hence it is a coördinate conjunction of reason.
Exercise.
Parse all the conjunctions in these sentences:—
1. When the gods come among men, they are not known.