# Helping keywords

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Helping keywords are used to create a relation between functions and objects. 

**Important:**\
Helping keywords are the prepositions and conjunctions of the console, so to speak. 

### Example:

 

**Helping keyword At:**

\[Channel]> Copy Cue 3 **At** Cue 5

 

**Helping keyword Thru:**

 \[Channel]> Delete Effect 4 **Thru** 6

 

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##  List of Helping Keywords

- [+ \[Plus\] keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_plus/)
- [- \[Minus\] keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_minus/)
- [And keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_and/)
- [At keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_at/)
- [CmdDelay keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_cmddelay/)
- [Delay keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_delay/)
- [EndIf keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_endif/)
- [Fade keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_fade/)
- [If keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_if/)
- [Off keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_off/)
- [On keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_on/)
- [Or keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_or/)
- [OutFade keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_outfade/)
- [OutDelay keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_outdelay/)
- ​[SnapPercent keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_snappercent/)
- [Thru keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_thru/)
- [Toggle keyword](/grandma2/key_keyword_toggle/)