 Basic Esperanto conjunctions are "kaj" (both/and), "kun" (with),"aŭ" (either/or), "nek" (neither/nor), "se" (if), "ĉu" (whether/or), "sed" (but), "anstataŭ" (instead of), "krom" (besides, except for), "kiel" (like, as), "ke" (that).Like prepositions, they precede the phrase or clause they modify