SIMPLE AND COMPLEX COORDINATION

coordination of CLAUSES

(adverbial, nominal, relative, to-inf, -ing participle, -ed participle, verbless) ex.: I don´t know WHO she was or WHAT she do. (nominal wh. clause)

TYPES OF SIMPLE COORDINATION

1. coordination of CLAUSES 2. coordination of PREDICATES AND PREDICATIONS 3. coordination of THE SCOPE ADVERBIALS 4. coordination of NOUN PHRASE AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS 5. COMBINATORY AND SEGREGATORY combination of NOUN phrases. 6. coordination WITHIN NOUN PHRASE 7. coordination of MODIFIERS 8. coordination of other constituents

TYPES OF COMPLEX COORDINATION

1. final position 2. other than final position

COMBINATORY AND SEGREGATORY combination of NOUN phrases.

COMBINATORY: John and Marry make a pleasant couple. SEGREGATORY: John and Marry know the answer.

coordination of other constituents

Many people might have been KILLED OR INJURED. (Main verb)

coordination of NOUN PHRASE AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS

On his farm, they keep cows, sheeps ,pigs, and ducks.

coordination of PREDICATES AND PREDICATIONS

Peter ATE THE FRUIT and DRINK THE BEER.

SIMPLE COORDINATION

The coordinated units are CONJOINS and the resulting combination is CONJOINT.

coordination of THE SCOPE ADVERBIALS

Yesterday (the sun was very warm) and t(the ice melted).

coordination WITHIN NOUN PHRASE

coordinated NOUN HEADS- His wife and son.

COMPLEX COORDINATION

coordination in which conjoins are combinations of units rather than single units, usually requiring string parallelism between the conjoins, therefore tending to be used in written style of english.

coordination of MODIFIERS

dishonest and lazy student

Final position complex coordination

each conjoin consists of contiguous elements and the conjoins are combined in final position. either INDIRECT or DIRECT OBJECT