15 Coordination

At diploma mills throughout the states you can buy a bachelor’s degree for about $ 1,500, a master’s degree for $1,600, or a doctorate for $1,700. To make the series move slowly and seem lengthy and drawn-out( ), we can repeat the coodinator all through the series, eliminating the commas, eg: Raising vegetables presents endless opportunities for weeding and thinning and hoeing and watering.
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4) Symmetrical organizatin of coodinate constructions
In a series of four or more than four coodinated items, there are even more options than just repeating or eliminating coodinators. Instead of listing the items one after another, we can regroup them in pairs so that the series is made more balanced and symmetrical. (especially common in formal written language.) Only a few cities are known as ― good baseball towns‖– Cincinati, Detrit, chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York. → Only a few cities are known as ― good baseball towns‖– Cincinati and Detrit, chicago and Boston, Los Angeles and New York.
In the country there are no honking horns, no diesel trucks, no pollution—just the sounds of wind rustling th etree leaves and red squirrels chattering in the distant oaks and creekwater rushing down its endless course. Besides the comma, there are other punctuation marks that can also function as coodinating devices. They are the semicolon and the colon. Generally speaking, the semicolon coodinates by contrast, and colon by amplification, eg;
The children can go with us or they can stay at home. This sentence may be correct grammatically, but a native speaker never says it that way. When two or more independent clauses are coodinated, they form a compound sentence, eg: Mary is a nurse, her brother is a doctor, and her parents are both famous writers. 2) Coodinating devices Coodinators and punctuation marks There are five typed of discharge from military service: honorable, general, undesirable, bad conduct, and dishonorable.
15.2 Coodinators semantically considered
Modern English has three basic coodinators: and, or but. Added to these are yet, so, nor, items that can function both as conjunctions and as conjunctive adverbs. In addition, there are some correlative pairs including both…and, not only…but (also), not …nor, neither…nor, either…or, etc. there are also some ―quasi-coodinators‖, including as well as, as much as, rather than, more than, etc, ranking between a coodinator and a subordinator or a complex preposition. Finally, we should mention the conjunction for, which can also be viewed either as a coodinator or as a subordinator.
On the other hand, if we want to make the series more rapid so as to create a suggestion of urgency and exitement, we can use commas all thriugh the series, eliminating the coodinators, eg: Individuals are less troubled by feelings of guilt when they share responsibility for killings with a group– a street gang, lynch mob( ), terrorist organization. It is even possible to combine in a single sentence a series that repeats coodinators with one that eliminates them completely, just to produce a kind of rhetorical effect, eg:
3) Insertion between coodinated items
Two coodinated items can be interrupted by an insertion just to lend emphasis to the second item. Likewise, in a series of three or more coodinated items, the last two can also be iterrupted by an insertion to produce the same rhetorical effect, eg: Donna was happy with her achievement but, after three days of intense competition, tired from the struggle. John frankenheimer has directed action movies such as ― Seven Days in may‖, ―Grand prix‖, and, more recently, ―black Sunday and brinks‖
Lecture 15
Coordination
15.1 Types of coodinate constructions
1) Formation of coodinate constructions Coodinate constructions may be on different ranks in grammatical hierarchy.They may be a sequence of coodinated words, eg: buy or sell, good but expensive; They may be a sequence of coodinated phrases, eg: A teacher and a student, With strength but without confidence Walking down the street or running through an alley Or clauses:
Black American writers like Frederick Douglas, W. E.B. Dudois, MalcolmX, and Eldridge Cleaver have found autobiography an especially congenial form. → Black American writers from Frederick Douglas and W. E. B. Dudois to Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver have found autobiography an especially congenial form.