Selasa, 21 Mei 2013

COORDINATE CONJUNCTION & PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION

CONJUNCTIONS

Conjunctions are words used as joiners.
Different kinds of conjunctions join different kinds of grammatical structures.
The following are the kinds of conjunctions:
       

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Coordinating conjunctions join equals to one another:
            words to words,          phrases to phrases,          clauses to clauses.

Example:

word to word          most children like cookies and milk
phrase to phrase     the gold is hidden at the beach or by the lakeside
clause to clause      what you say and what you do are two different things 

         
Coordinating conjunctions usually form looser connections than other conjunctions do.

Example:

marge was late for work,and she received a cut in pay. (very loose)
marge was late for work ,so she received a cut in pay. (loose)

because marge was late for work ,she received a cut in pay.(the subordinate conjunction because creates a tighter link between to the ideas)


Coordinating conjunctions go in between items joined, not at the beginning or end.
Examples:

correct :    i like coffee,but i don't like tea
incorrect:  but i don't like tea,i like coffee

 paralel contruction

Two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in length and grammatical form. Also called parallelism.
By convention, items in a series appear in parallel grammatical
form: a noun is listed with other nouns, an -ing form with other -ing forms, and so on. Failure to express such items in similar grammatical form is called faulty parallelism.

sumber :grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/c.htm
              http://www.towson.edu/ows/conjunctions.htm