RELATIONSHIPS OF EQUIVALENCE
BETWEEN CLAUSES
SUMMARY
Clauses are related syntactically in one of two ways: they are either equivalent in status or non-equivalent.
• Coordination is the syntactic relationship between units of equal status that conjoin to form a larger unit. Each of the units is called a coordinate They are linked by the coordinators and, or and but.
• Correlative coordination of alternation is carried out by either . . . or and negatively, by neither . . . nor. Not only . . . but also has an additive meaning.
It is not only clauses that can be coordinated. Various classes of grammatical elements can likewise be coordinated and seen in authentic illustrations. Lower level coordination deals with units below the clause.
Cohesive connectives such as besides, actually, serve to clarify the relationships between coordinated clauses.
Intermediate coordination consists of a coordinator + another item such as and then, and so, and yet. The result is intermediate between coordination and subordination.
