What a Good Dog You Have!

a mini rhetorical analysis

These were my words to the elderly gentleman I passed while on my morning run today. His dog, also clearly elderly, walked slowly alongside him, unleashed and peaceful.

“Yeah, she’s a good dog, but she’s a female, so she has her days,” was his reply.

I want to talk about the words “but” and “so” in this sentence. Both those words are coordinating conjunct…