Coordinating Words, Phrases and Clauses in English

Organizing Words, Phrases and Clauses in English At the point when we facilitate things, regardless of whether were discussing our calendars or our apparel, we make associations or, as the word reference says in an increasingly whimsical manner, unite things in a typical and agreeable activity. A similar thought applies when we talk about coordination in language structure. A typical method to interface related words, states, and even whole provisions is to organize them that is, associate them with a planning combination, for example, and additionally but. The following short passage from Ernest Hemingways Another Country contains a few composed words, expressions, and provisos. We were all at the clinic each evening, and there were various methods of strolling over the town through the sunset to the emergency clinic. Two of the ways were nearby waterways, however they were long. Continuously, however, you crossed a scaffold over a channel to enter the 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 subsequently in your pocket. The emergency clinic was old and lovely, and you entered through an entryway and strolled over a yard and out a door on the opposite side. In the majority of his books and short stories, Hemingway depends vigorously (a few perusers may state too intensely) on such essential conjunctions as and however. The other organizing conjunctions are yet, or, nor, for, thus. Combined Conjunctions Like these essential conjunctions are the accompanying combined conjunctions (at times called correlative conjunctions): both . . . andeither . . . orneither . . . nornot . . . butnot . . . nornot just . . . be that as it may, (also)whether . . . or on the other hand The combined conjunctions serve to stress the words being associated. Lets perceive how these correlative conjunctions work. To begin with, think about the accompanying straightforward sentence, which contains two things joined by and: Martha and Gus have gone to Buffalo. We can modify this sentence with combined conjunctions to underscore the two things: Both Martha and Gus have gone to Buffalo. We regularly utilize the fundamental planning conjunctions and combined conjunctions in our composition to interface 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 attendants in outfits and in laborer ensembles strolled under the trees with the youngsters. Be that as it may, when at least two things are recorded before a combination, those things ought to be isolated by commas: Medical caretakers in outfits, laborer ensembles, and worn dresses strolled under the trees with the children.* Essentially, when two complete sentences (called primary 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 endless 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.