THE COMPOUND SENTENCE
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 530.
A COMPOUND SENTENCE is a sentence which consists of two or more independent clauses. Clauses have a subject and a predicate of their own. They are called coordinate clauses, as they are joined by coordination.
In a compound sentence clauses may be connected syndetically (by means of conjunctions or conjunctive adverbs) and asyndetically (without conjunctions or conjunctive adverbs).
Syndetically: Give me one firm spot to stand, andI will move the earth. (Archimedes)
Asyndetically: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses, and all the king's men
Cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Clauses in a compound sentence are sequentially joined. We cannot change the order of clauses without changing the meaning of the whole sentence. The opening clause usually plays the leading role.
From the point of view of relationship between coordinate clauses, we distinguish four kinds of coordination:
1. Copulative coordination implies that two events or ideas are merely connected, joined in time and place.
Copulative connectors: 1) conjunctions: and, nor, neither …
nor, not only … but, as well as
2) conjunctive adverbs: then, moreover
3) asyndetically
The students didn't know grammar, nordid they come to the lesson.
He doesn't have a car and neither do I.
She was familiar with the problems, andthey bored her.
We entered the university, thenwe turned to the right.
The bus stopped, the automatic door sprang open, a lady got off.
The price is too high,moreoverthe bike is in need of repair.
He was neithergoing to apologize, norwas he going to offer any explanation.
2. Disjunctive coordination denotes choice between two or more alternatives.
Disjunctive connectors: 1) conjunctions: or, either … or
2) conjunctive adverbs: else (or else),
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