Glossary

coordination	balancing ideas in structures in writing so that they have roughly equal importance



essential adjective clauses	a clause, functioning as an adjective within a sentence, that is essential to the sentence's meaning; does not have commas setting it apart



non-essential adjective clauses	a clause, functioning as an adjective within a sentence, that is not essential to the sentence's meaning; does have commas setting it apart



parallelism	a form of coordination that repeats similar grammatical units for clarity and emphasis



subordination	a method of joining two complete thoughts that shows that one thought is not as important as the other thought; subordinate clauses begin with a dependent word (e.g., because, when, if, etc.)

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