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  2. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The definition may be extended to idiomatic phrases that behave as a unit and perform the same function, e.g. "as well as", "provided that". A simple literary example of a conjunction is "the truth of nature, and the power of giving interest" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria). [3]

  3. Coordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Two examples of the sort of apparatus that has been posited are so-called conjunction reduction and right node raising (RNR). [6] [7] Conjunction reduction is an ellipsis mechanism that takes non-constituent conjuncts to be complete phrases or clauses at some deep level of syntax. These complete phrases or clauses are then reduced down to their ...

  4. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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    English coordinators (also known as coordinating conjunctions) are conjunctions that connect words, phrases, or clauses with equal syntactic importance. The primary coordinators in English are and , but , or , and nor .

  5. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    Example 2 has two clauses (I don't know how to bake and I buy my bread already made), combined into a single sentence with the coordinating conjunction so. In example 3, I enjoyed the apple pie is an independent clause, and that you bought for me is a dependent clause; the sentence is thus complex.

  6. Asyndeton - Wikipedia

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    Asyndeton may be contrasted with syndeton (syndetic coordination) and polysyndeton, which describe the use of one or multiple coordinating conjunctions, respectively. More generally, in grammar, an asyndetic coordination is a type of coordination in which no coordinating conjunction is present between the conjuncts. [5]

  7. Polysyndeton - Wikipedia

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    For example, conjunctions like “και” (and) or “δε” (but) repeat frequently. A passage from the Book of Genesis gives an instance of the stately effect of polysyndeton: And God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind." And it was so.

  8. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    An example of a correlative conjunction can be seen in: Not only did I finish my homework, but I also helped my sibling. Subordinators make relations between clauses, making the clause in which they appear into a subordinate clause. [35] Some common subordinators in English are: conjunctions of time, including after, before, since, until, when ...

  9. Syndeton - Wikipedia

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    Syndeton (from the Greek συνδετόν "bound together with") or syndetic coordination in grammar is a form of syntactic coordination of the elements of a sentence (conjuncts) with the help of a coordinating conjunction. For instance, in a simple syndeton two conjuncts are joined by a conjunction: "I will have eggs and ham". [1]