and meaning

and as a conjunction

1. used to join words, phrases or clauses that are added together
   • bread and butter
   • she sang and danced
2. used to show that one thing follows or results from another
   • I was tired, and I went to bed

and in a sentence

• Fruits and vegetables are essential to a balanced diet.
• Your composition is very good, and it has few mistakes.
• When summer is over, the days grow shorter and shorter.
• Stop beating around the bush and tell me what happened.
• Little lights were blinking on and off in the distance.

How to pronounce and

and is pronounced /ənd/ in British English and /ənd/ in American English. It has 1 syllable.