Correlative conjunctions are joining words that come in pairs, like either… or and neither… nor.
Either chocolates or biscuits sound good to me.
Neither biscuits nor ice cream sound good to me.
Both biscuits and ice cream sound good to me.
Whether we like it or not, winter is here.
See the separate entries for the correlative pairs the… the… and rather… than…
The word pair rather… than… compares two hypothetical outcomes, often with the verb ‘would’. The two things being compared should be in the same grammatical form. Note especially that the word ‘to’ should not come after the word than, unless it also appeared after the word rather. Note also that the phrase rather than with no words in between (as in “They prefer to be right rather than wrong”) is not a conjunction.
Weather forecasters would rather be right than be wrong.
Weather forecasters would rather include rare scenarios than miss certain developments.
The definite article can be repeated (the…, the…) to show that one action leads to another. (Swedish ju… desto…)
The more positive the potential energy, the stronger the convection is likely to become.
Another way of phrasing that is “When the potential energy is more positive, then the convection is likely to become stronger.”
