Our teacher has waited so patiently for our report but we have not submitted it yet which underlined word functions as a coordinating conjunction in the sentence

The coordinating conjunction in the sentence is "BUT". A coordinating conjunction is a word that joins two items of the same rank. Those items can be words, phrases or sentences. In this case,"but" is used to introduce the second statement ("Our teacher has waited so patiently for out report") which is different from the first one ("We have not submitted it yet"). The conjunction "but" presents a contrast between those two ideas.

elise is writing a literary analysis of a biographical essay about emily dickinson.

which of the following should elise use in order to provide a strong claim statement in the introduction to her analysis?

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“a life apart” by julia golding maintains that emily dickenson wrote over a thousand poems during her life.