Lecture30Coordination.pptVIP

A NEW ENGLISH GRAMMAR COURSEBOOK新编英语语法教程 章振邦 编 周庆锦 讲 Lecture 30Coordination了 A coordinate construction is a sequence of semantically-related grammatical units that are similar in a form, equal in rank of structure, identical in function and are connected by coordinators. In ordinary expository prose, parallelism can be regarded as a type of coordination, linking elements that are already logically connected. Thus an adjective is paralleled to another, a noun to a noun or a verb to a verb. E.g. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. (---- Winston Churchill) Say