and

Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.

Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.

Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.

Yet; but.

Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.

Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.

Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.

Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.

Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.

Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try.