Wir Ain Leed — Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words that connect sentences, clauses and words.
Many common adverbs and prepositions are also used as conjunctions.
Uses of afore.
I'll be home before you.
He was there before I came up.
I'd stay in a house on my own rather than live with a man like that.
Frae is a literary form - fae being common in speech, except in South West Central Scots and Southern Scots where it is pronounced thrae.
The child is crying from the time that it wakes up.
He's done nothing but eat since he went in.
Uses of hou.
Allow me to ask you how you did that.
I always wondered why he went to Norway.
Uses of tae and til.
Tae is generally used in the sense of 'until'.
Til is generally used in the sense of 'before', 'when' or 'in order that'.
I'll not go home until I see the doctor coming out.
I wasn't long home when he came to see me.
Give me a matchso that I can light the gas.
Other conjunctions are:
*Again also takes the form agin, which may be contracted 'gin.
**Acause may be contracted to 'cause.
***Gif is now obsolete and is usually a literary form.
****Or, used to introduce an alternative, should not be confused with or [ər] meaning before or until.
***** In Insular and Caithness Scots at, from Old Norse at, also occurs. Not to be confused with the preposition at.
You're older than me.
He has more than I thought.
Wait here until I return.
Be quiet or else I'll hit you.
You'll see it before long.
I didn't go because I wasn't invited.
Get on the way, and once we arrive we’ll have a tipple.
And, unless you read it correctly, you won’t understand it.
Don't worry yourself. If Jimmy says it's well, it's well.
Everyone except my friends came.
You'll be soaked before you get home.
Should I take this one or that one?
Oh, if only they were gone.
What shall I do if my car won't start?
You'll not get in unless you wear your Sunday best.
He's been an old man for as long as I can remember.
Money is plentiful now compared with whow it was in our day.
More than seven hundred people had come to the gathering.
Note the use of and + a verb in infinitive phrases.
Infinitive - in the mood that expresses, the verbal idea without reference to person, number or time.
Try to repair the garden gate by tomorrow.
Remember to bring her back before twelve.
She can't remember to do what she's told.
And [an(d), ən] is used to introduce verbless subordinate clauses (cannot function as sentences in their own right, but perform an adjectival, adverbial or nominal function) that express logical contradiction, surprise or indignation.
He had to hoist all those pallets although he had a sore arm.
She had to wander for four miles although she was eight months pregnant.