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2. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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   Coordinate structures are created when two or more elements are connected by a coordinator. These structures can involve words, phrases, or clauses. For example, "apples and oranges" is a coordinate structure consisting of two noun phrases, while "She likes apples and he likes oranges" is a coordinate structure consisting of two clauses.

3. Coordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Coordination is a very flexible mechanism of syntax. Any given lexical or phrasal category can be coordinated. The examples throughout this article employ the convention whereby the conjuncts of coordinate structures are marked using square brackets and bold script.

4. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   In this sense, the subordinate clauses of these languages have much in common with postpositional phrases. In other West Germanic languages like German and Dutch, the word order after a subordinating conjunction is different from that in an independent clause, e.g. in Dutch want ('for') is coordinating, but omdat ('because') is subordinating ...

5. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   Subject + Verb (transitive) + Indirect Object + Direct Object Example: She made me a pie. This clause pattern is a derivative of S+V+O, transforming the object of a preposition into an indirect object of the verb, as the example sentence in transformational grammar is actually "She made a pie for me". Subject + Verb (transitive) + Object ...

6. Parallel syntax - Wikipedia

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   Coordination of nouns and adjectives with a linking verb: "The old car was a relic and rusty." [9] Mixing of verb forms: "She wants to sing, she wants to act, she wants to be a dancer." The final clause in this sentence does not match the infinitive form of the preceding two. Examples of Parallel structure used alongside other rhetorical devices:

7. English clause syntax - Wikipedia

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   Independent clauses generally have no functional relationship to larger syntactic units. The main exception is in a coordination of clauses, where they can be coordinates or heads of a marked clause. An example would be I came, and I went, which is shown in the following syntax tree. Neither coordinate is the head of the coordination; a ...

8. Conjunctive adverb - Wikipedia

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   A conjunctive adverb, adverbial conjunction, or subordinating adverb is an adverb that connects two clauses by converting the clause it introduces into an adverbial modifier of the verb in the main clause. For example, in "I told him; thus, he knows" and "I told him. Thus, he knows", thus is a conjunctive adverb. [1]

9. Subordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   For example: Before we play again, we should do our homework. We are doing our homework now because we want to play again. The strings in bold are subordinate clauses, and the strings in non-bold are the main clauses. Sentences must consist of at least one main clause, whereas the number of subordinate clauses is hypothetically without limitation.