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coordination

11/30/2023

"Coordination is free from the careful weighting, ordering, and evaluating of subordination, and even when a coordinative statement is cast in a highly conscious design, the imposed structuring seems just that -- imposed -- resulting from poetic rather than analytic attention, implying aesthetic order or resolution rather than an authentic rendering of the ultimately irresolvable shades of logical distinction in a complex reality."

From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte

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asyndeton

11/28/2023

"One name for refraining from conjunctions is asyndeton. Often whole clauses are juxtaposed in this somewhat noncommital way. Fully independent, they are not attached to one another, they touch but are not connected."

From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte

elements of a coordinated structure

11/27/2023

"The common conjunctions -- and, but, for, or, nor, yet, and so -- are structural words that conjoin the elements of a coordinated structure. Their work is to connect similar units -- words, phrases, clauses, or even sentences."

From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte

prepositional

11/26/2023

"Like adverbs and adjectives, the prepositional phrase can occupy various positions in a sentence, although one must take care that the phrase is tied to the intended word and not to an unintended one."

From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte

answer

11/25/2023

"As adjectives and adverbs take up their positions, as they are arranged, developed, or expanded, they answer such questions as 'Which one?' 'What kind?' 'How?' 'When?' 'Where?' and many more."

From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte

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