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SIMPLE COORDINATION
What is a coordination? A way of joining clauses, or clause elements with coordinators such as:
and, or and but
Simple coordination consists of: A single clause or clause constituent is linked to others that
are parallel in meaning, in function and generally in form.
The coordinated units are CONJOINS (to join with a coordinating conjunction) and the
resulting combination is called CONJOINT.
This can be seen as:
1. As an elliptical version of clause coordination.
My grandmother refuses to go into the house, and I'm afraid she's going to catch
a bad cold.
2. Subordinate finite clauses may be coordinated, so long as they belong to the same
function class:
Unless you pass your exam and have a good degree, you arent able to entrance the
University
Coordinated nominal that clause
The man thought that he had won the lottery and (that) the prize had been a
lot of money.
Coordinated nominal wh clause
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I told you about the woman who lives next door and whose car was parked in front
of my house.
3. Nonfinite clauses of the same type and also verbless clauses may coordinated
Nonfinite clauses
To infinitive clause
I paid him a lot of money to rebuild the house and (to) redecorate.
I am tired of going to the same place and listening to the same music.
Ed - participle clause
The palm oil has caused damaged to the forest and killed endangered animals.
Verbless clauses
Nervous to move, and unable to speak, she stood on the floor trembling.
ok.
Coordination of NOUN PHRASE and their constituents
Noun phrase coordination
Two or more noun phrases may be joined to form a conjoint noun phrase, functioning:
As a subject: All companies and supermarkets have cut the price of their
products.
As object: They sent a letter to Bill and Ben.
They contain general ellipsis: which car was the winner? The red dress, the
green or the white?
Combinatory and Segregatory coordination of noun phrase
Sam and Mary has cold. = Sam has cold, and Mary has cold.
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COMBINATORY: it is impossible to paraphrase. (Joint coordination)
Sam and John make a great team. It is not the same to say Sam make a great team. John
make a great team.
Indicators of segregatory meaning.
We use indicators of segregatory meaning to make ambiguous sentence unambiguous one.
Both each neither nor - respective (formal) - respectively (formal) - apiece (rather rare)
John and Mary fell in love. John and Mary each fell in love. (SEGREGATORY)
Sally and Matt each make excellent cakes. (SEGREGATORY)
countries.
whereas the adverbs respectively shows constituents in the same order as the things you
have mentioned and it means 'in the order described': George and Martha came in
third and fifth in the race, respectively.
COORDINATION WITHIN NOUN PHRASE
Coordinated modifiers
The segregatory meaning is possible only when the coordinated modifiers denote exclusive
properties. In other words, it is possible to use coordinated modifiers only in order to describe
and segregate entities by their features.
Verb phrases: Last night the ship hit an object, the captain gave a warning,
and the passengers put on life vests.
Main verbs: You shouldnt have gone to that place and stayed at home.
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COMPLEX COORDINATION
The conjoins are combinations of units rather than single units.
FIRST TYPE
Each conjoin consists of contiguous elements and the conjoins are combined in final position in
the clause.
Indirect object + direct object
The doctors said Julia to stop smoking and Kate to lose weight.
Object + object complement
You can put the chairs at the table and the dish on it.
SECOND TYPE
The conjoins are not in final position. The second conjoin is separated by intonation in speech.
GAPPING
The second or subsequent conjoin contains a medial ellipsis.
Subject + object
Gonzi has been absent for three days in London and Fernanda (ellipsis) one day.
Subject + complement
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APPENDED COORDINATION
Informal speech. When an elliptical clause is appended (add/join) to a previous clause.
PSEUDO-COORDINATION
Informal speech. We have coordination of completely identical constituents.
The coordination of two verbs that has an idiomatic function similar.
You can find prices and prices. = high and low prices.
Three or more identical nouns to indicate a large number of quantity.