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Causative-consecutive conjunctions: so, for.

Causative-consecutive conjunctions denote consequence, result, or reason. By these conjunctions one statement or fact is inferred or proved from another.
He had gone some miles away, and was not expected home until late at night; so the landlady dispatched the same messenger in all haste for Mr. Pecksniff. (Dickens)
His eyes must have had in them something of George Forsyte's sardonic look; for her gloved hand crisped the folds of her frock, her eyebrows rose, her face went stony. (Galsworthy)
The conjunction for is a borderline case between a coordinating and a subordinating conjunction. When expressing cause it ap­proaches in its meaning the subordinating conjunctions as, because:
There was moreover time to spare, for Fleur was to meet him at the Gallery at four o'clock, and it was yet half past two. (Galsworthy)
Coordinating conjunctions can be used both in compound and in simple sentences; the coordinating copulative conjunctions both... and, as well as are used only in simple sentences.
Then he shrugged in impatience and said frankly, "I don't know what came over me." "You know as well as I do and that's why we're going away," Savina insisted steadily. (Wilson)
The use of the copulative conjunction and in simple sentences as well as in compound sentences is widely spread.
But as he did so, unexpectedly he paused, and raised his head. (Cronin)
The coordinating conjunctions neither... nor, or, either... or are more widely used in simple sentences than in complex sentences.
There was nothing remarkable about the size of the eyes. They were neither large nor small. (London)
...in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. (Twain)
...there was a slight smile on his lips that could have been either amusement or shy self-deprecation. (Wilson)
Some of the coordinating conjunctions are polysemantic. Thus the coordinating conjunction and may indicate different relations:
...there stood a white house within a walled garden, and in the pantry of this we found a store of food. (Wells) (copulative)
You are nineteen, Jon, and I am seventy-two. How are we to understand each other in a matter like this, eh? (Galsworthy) (ADVERSATIVE)
When he read those books something happened to him, and he went out of doors again in passionate quest of a river. (Galsworthy) (CONSECUTIVE)
The conjunction or may have a disjunctive and an adversative meaning.
Happily it (a hackney-coach) brought them to the place where Jonas dwelt or the young ladies might have rather missed the point and cream of the jest. (Dickens) (adversative)
After that one would see, or more probably one would not. (Galsworthy) (disjunctive)
The causative-consecutive conjunction for may have a causative or a consecutive meaning:
He would have to be more careful than man had ever been, for the least thing would give it away and make her as wretched as himself almost. (Galsworthy) (causative)
From the warmth of her embrace he probably divined that he had let the cat out of the bag, for he rode off at once on irony. (Galsworthy) (consecutive)