Coordinating Words, Phrases and Clauses in English

Organizing Words, Phrases and Clauses in English At the point when we organize things, regardless of whether were discussing our calendars or our apparel, we make associations or, as the word reference says in a progressively whimsical manner, unite things in a typical and amicable activity. A similar thought applies when we talk about coordination in language. A typical method to interface related words, expresses, and even whole provisos is to facilitate them that is, associate them with a planning combination, for example, and additionally but. The following short section from Ernest Hemingways Another Country contains a few composed words, expressions, and statements. We were all at the medical clinic each evening, and there were various methods of strolling over the town through the nightfall to the emergency clinic. Two of the ways were close by trenches, however they were long. Continuously, however, you crossed an extension over a channel to enter the medical clinic. There was a decision of three extensions. On one of them a lady sold simmered chestnuts. It was warm, remaining before her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm a short time later in your pocket. The emergency clinic was old and extremely excellent, and you entered through a door and strolled over a patio and out an entryway on the opposite side. In the greater part of his books and short stories, Hemingway depends vigorously (a few perusers may state too intensely) on such essential conjunctions as and yet. The other planning conjunctions are yet, or, nor, for, thus. Combined Conjunctions Like these essential conjunctions are the accompanying combined conjunctions (now and then called correlative conjunctions): both . . . andeither . . . orneither . . . nornot . . . butnot . . . nornot just . . . be that as it may, (also)whether . . . or then again The combined conjunctions serve to underscore the words being associated. Lets perceive how these correlative conjunctions work. In the first place, think about the accompanying basic sentence, which contains two things joined by and: Martha and Gus have gone to Buffalo. We can revise this sentence with combined conjunctions to underscore the two things: Both Martha and Gus have gone to Buffalo. We frequently utilize the essential planning conjunctions and combined conjunctions in our composition to associate related thoughts. Accentuation Tips: Using Commas with Conjunctions At the point when only two words or expressions are joined by a combination, no comma is required: Medical caretakers in regalia and in worker outfits strolled under the trees with the kids. Nonetheless, when at least two things are recorded before a combination, those things ought to be isolated by commas: Attendants in regalia, laborer ensembles, and worn dresses strolled under the trees with the children.* Likewise, when two complete sentences (called fundamental provisions) are joined by a combination, we ought to for the most part place a comma before the combination: The tides advance and retreat in their everlasting rhythms, and the degree of the ocean itself is rarely very still. Albeit no comma is required before the and that joins the action words advance and retreat, we do need to put a comma before the second and, which joins two primary provisions. * Note that the comma after the second thing in the arrangement (outfits) is discretionary. This utilization of the comma is known as the sequential comma.