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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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