Grammer: Coordination in Compound Sentences
NOTES: Grammar as Rhetoric and Style: Coordination in the Compound Sentence
• Coordination puts equal value or significance on two or more parts of a sentence
• Coordination can be used to join sentences, phrases words and even independent clauses.
• When coordination is used to combine two sentences it creates a compound sentence.
• Coordination conjunctions
-And, but, or nor, for, so, yet
• Correlative conjunctions
-Not only, but also, either or, just as….so also
• A semicolon can also be used to connect the sentences.
• A semi colon with a conjunctive adverb (however, indeed thus, moreover, in fact, therefore, etc.) can also be used to connect two independent clauses.
• Without a semicolon it can be harder for the reader to understand a correlation or relationship between the ideas in each independent clause
PUNCTUATION OF SENTENCES THAT CONTAIN COORDINATION.
• A comma indicates a pause.
• A semicolon indicates a full stop within a sentence which combines 2 thoughts.
• A semicolon can effectively establish coordination between sentences.
COMMA SPLICES
• Replacing a conjunction or semicolon with a comma is called splicing the clauses.
• Spicing:”joining loosely or ineffectively”
• A coma splice can be replaced with a coordination conjunction, a semicolon, or even a period.
• The best way to fix a splice is to either divide it into 2 separate sentences of use coordination to create a compound sentence.
RHETORICAL AND STYLISTIC STRATEGY
• Writers use coordinating conjunctions to create a more cohesive long sentence than compared to two shorter ones.
• Helps create fluency
• The job of conjunctions is to point out the relationship between two ideas.
-Contrasting ideas are signals with the words but, yet or however
-Related ideas are signaled by words of cause and effect, thus, for or therefore.
• A semicolon can also be used to signify balance. “It is not this; it is that”
• The semi colon links the two independent clauses which are
• Coordination puts equal value or significance on two or more parts of a sentence
• Coordination can be used to join sentences, phrases words and even independent clauses.
• When coordination is used to combine two sentences it creates a compound sentence.
• Coordination conjunctions
-And, but, or nor, for, so, yet
• Correlative conjunctions
-Not only, but also, either or, just as….so also
• A semicolon can also be used to connect the sentences.
• A semi colon with a conjunctive adverb (however, indeed thus, moreover, in fact, therefore, etc.) can also be used to connect two independent clauses.
• Without a semicolon it can be harder for the reader to understand a correlation or relationship between the ideas in each independent clause
PUNCTUATION OF SENTENCES THAT CONTAIN COORDINATION.
• A comma indicates a pause.
• A semicolon indicates a full stop within a sentence which combines 2 thoughts.
• A semicolon can effectively establish coordination between sentences.
COMMA SPLICES
• Replacing a conjunction or semicolon with a comma is called splicing the clauses.
• Spicing:”joining loosely or ineffectively”
• A coma splice can be replaced with a coordination conjunction, a semicolon, or even a period.
• The best way to fix a splice is to either divide it into 2 separate sentences of use coordination to create a compound sentence.
RHETORICAL AND STYLISTIC STRATEGY
• Writers use coordinating conjunctions to create a more cohesive long sentence than compared to two shorter ones.
• Helps create fluency
• The job of conjunctions is to point out the relationship between two ideas.
-Contrasting ideas are signals with the words but, yet or however
-Related ideas are signaled by words of cause and effect, thus, for or therefore.
• A semicolon can also be used to signify balance. “It is not this; it is that”
• The semi colon links the two independent clauses which are