Definition of Coordinate Conjunctions

Definition
Some words are satisfied spending an evening at home, alone, eating ice-cream right out of the box, watching Seinfeld re-runs on TV, or reading a good book. Others aren't happy unless they're out on the town, mixing it up with other words; they're joiners and they just can't help themselves. A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.
A type of conjunctions that is used to connect two words or groups of words of equal grammatical status. The most common coordinating conjuctions are "and" and "or" in English, y and o in spanish. "But" (pero) is also sometimes used as a coordinating conjunction.
Also known as conjuncion coordinante or conjuncion de coordinacion in Spanish.
A compound sentence is a sentence that contains two or more sentences joined into one using a coordinate conjunction, such as and, but, or, yet, for, nor, so. The following are the examples :
1. AND (addition)
Dolphins are friendly animals, and they are also intelligent.
2. BUT (contrast)
Her cousin moved away, but she stayed in town.
3. OR (alternation)
Are you going to the party, or will you stay home?
4. YET (contrast)
Michelle is a vegetarian, yet she eats chicken.
5. FOR (cause)
That student failed, for he was very ill this year.
6. NOR
Rocky refuses to eat dry cat food, nor will he touch a saucer of squid eyeball stew.
7. SO ( result)
The books were cheap, so I bought all of them.