1. Coordination in the Compound Sentence
By: Daisy Santos and Angela Barrett

2. Confers equal value and significance on two or more elements in a sentence
Used to join words, phrases, and independent clauses that could be sentences in their own right
When you use coordination to combine two sentences you get a compound sentence
Coordination

3. Coordinating Conjunctions: and, but, or, not, for, so, yet
Correlative Conjunctions: not only… but also ; either… or ; just as… so also
Conjunctive Adverb: however, indeed, thus, moreover, in fact, therefore, nevertheless
Conjunctions

4. Coordinating Conjunctions Joining Main Clauses
Morbid curiosity is an occupational hazard for a writer, I suppose, but I’ve never been bothered by it before.
-David Ewing Duncan
Coordinating Conjunctions Joining Main Clauses

5. Semicolons Joining Main Clauses
That is the silence of contemplation; it is the silence when people get in touch with themselves; it is the silence of meditation and worship.
- Ursula Franklin
Semicolons Joining Main Clauses

6. Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbc Joining Main Clauses
Now he no longer let the dog go to the lighted tunnel at once; instead, he put out the light, and then kept the dog waiting a little while before he let him go.
- Jacob Bronowski
Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverbc Joining Main Clauses

7. In order to create coordination in a sentence you must use a conjunction or a semicolon instead of a comma
Failure to do so would lead to a Comma Splice
Splicing: joining loosely or ineffectively
Example:
Incorrect – She began by sitting and thinking, soon she was just sitting.
Correct – She began by sitting and thinking, but soon she was just sitting. (Comma and a Coordinating Conjunction)
Comma Splices

8. Rhetorical and Stylistic Strategy
Coordinating Conjunctions are used to smooth two shorter sentences into a single longer one that is more cohesive.
Example:
“It has distorted the choices faced by others as they try to balance their lives, and it has multiplied the anguish of parents whose children haven’t turned out as hoped.” – Sven Birkerts
Had Berkerts ended the sentence after “lives” and started a new one, they would be two abrupt sentences
Rhetorical and Stylistic Strategy

9. Rhetorical and Stylistic Strategy
If the ideas contrast, you would use “but”, “yet”, or “however” to make that connection. (Page 700)
If the ideas are related, you would use “thus”, “for”, or “therefore”. (Page 701)
A conjunction is used when the first clause contrasts with the second. (Page 701)
Rhetorical and Stylistic Strategy

10. Rhetorical and Stylistic Strategy
If the second point grows from the first point then the semicolon is used to emphasize its relation. Semicolons may also stress the balance or alternation between two ideas. (Page 701)
Semicolons also link the two independent clauses that are parallel except for the pronoun, and they create balance. (Page 701)
Rhetorical and Stylistic Strategy

11. Starting a Sentence with a Coordinating Conjunction
Contrasting popular opinion, you can start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction as long as you do it correctly and do not do it often.
They can be used as transitions after breaking a longer sentence into two pieces.
They are mainly used to create emphasis on a point.
Starting a Sentence with a Coordinating Conjunction

12. Polysyndeton The deliberate use of conjunctions.
Example: “When you get to college you may study history and psychology and literature and mathematics and botany”
By using “and” repeatedly it is showing emphasis on the choices.
It creates a specific pace to the sentence.
Polysyndeton

13. Asyndeton The deliberate omission of conjuctions.
Example: “From his wealthy parents he received his wardrobe, his car, his tuition, his vacation, his attitude.
This creates the ironic effect of separating ideas and creating a greater emphasis
Asyndeton

14. Practice Eliminate the comma splices in the following sentences:
Chocolate ice cream is delicious, vanilla is tasty too.
Either my parents will take us to the movies, we will take the bus.
I am lying about why I do not want to go out with him, it is wrong to do that.
Practice

15. Answers Chocolate ice cream is delicious and vanilla is tasty too.
Either my parents will drive us to the movies or we will take the bus.
I am lying about why I do not want to go out with him but it is wrong to do that.
Answers