You use and to introduce a question which follows logically from what someone has just said. `He used to be so handsome.' --- `And now?'
You use and to interrupt yourself in order to make a comment on what you are saying. As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language
emphasis You use and to link two words or phrases that are the same in order to emphasize the degree of something, or to suggest that something continues or increases over a period of time. Learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older We talked for hours and hours He lay down on the floor and cried and cried
You use and to link two statements when the second statement continues the point that has been made in the first statement. You could only really tell the effects of the disease in the long term, and five years wasn't long enough
You use and to indicate that two numbers are to be added together. What does two and two make? = plus
It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence
You use and at the beginning of a sentence to introduce something else that you want to add to what you have just said. Some people think that starting a sentence with and is ungrammatical, but it is now quite common in both spoken and written English. Commuter airlines fly to out-of-the-way places. And business travelers are the ones who go to those locations
And is used before a fraction that comes after a whole number. McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam. fourteen and a quarter per cent
You use and in numbers larger than one hundred, after the words `hundred' or `thousand' and before other numbers. three thousand and twenty-six pounds. A logical operator that returns a true value only if both operands are true. andante
And is used by broadcasters and people making announcements to change a topic or to start talking about a topic they have just mentioned. And now the drought in Sudan