| COORDINATION
AND JOINING PARALLEL SENTENCE PARTS |
Open
the link on Coordination
and learn more about coordinating conjunctions.
You
will improve your writing skills significantly if you
remember one important point about coordination; that
is, a coordinator always joins words, phrases, or clauses
that have the same grammatical structure. In other words,
the elements joined must be parallel
in form and meaning. By joining parallel
elements, sentences are balanced and easy to understand.
Study the examples below that refer to the introductory
reading on the nature of folktales.
| Always
join grammatically parallel structures with coordinators. |
| Verb
and
verb
|
Folktales
teach
by example and
have interesting features. |
| Noun
and noun |
Some
of these features are simplicity,
fantasy and
magic.
|
| Adjective
and adjective |
Events
in the tales may derive from
natural or
supernatural
causes. |
| Adverb
and
adverb
|
Folktales
connect people culturally
and
historically
to their past. |
| Phrase
and
phrase
|
People
of all ages
and from
every walk of life enjoy folktales. |
| Clause
and
clause
|
Folktales
teach important lessons about human nature,
so
many parents use them to instill
values in their children. |
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