Question

Identify the conjunction in the following sentence:
She was tired, yet she stayed up to keep her brother company.
A. Tired
B. Yet
C. She
D. Up.

Answer 1

Hint: A conjunction is a word that helps join two clauses or phrases or sentences to form one full sentence with a complete meaning. It is useful to omit repetition of same piece of information over two or three sentences by putting them all together.

Complete step by step answer:
Lets look at each option
Option A – Tired: This is an adjective, which states that the person is tired. It simply gave the nature of the person’s physical state or energy level. This is not the right answer.
Option B – Yet: This joins the two phrases – ‘she was tired’ and ‘she stayed up to keep her brother company’ which means that even though she was feeling tired, she stayed awake for her brother, to keep him company.
Option C – She: This is a pronoun merely defining the gender of the person. It cannot be the right answer as it is not connecting any two phrases as such.
Option D – Up: This is a prepositional term, which in this case is a description of the person’s sleep state. It means that the person did not go to sleep to keep her brother company. Hence this is not the right answer.
The answer is option (B)

Note:
Conjunctions are often misunderstood if they do not appear in between two phrases or sentences. To avoid the confusion, it is useful to pick words and break down their nature (if they are verbs or nouns, etc.)