Summary

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Coordination in writing is a balancing method that primarily relies on coordinating conjunctions to link roughly equivalent sentence parts: words, phrases and clauses.

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Clauses are often the most difficult word groups to correctly coordinate.

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Subordination helps the reader discriminate among our ideas. It depends on subordinating conjunctions such as as if, because, since, until and though.

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Adjective clauses are useful in subordinating ideas. They generally begin with relative pronouns such as who, which or that.

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Essential clauses need no commas; non-essential clauses require the use of commas.

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Parallelism is a form of coordination that repeats similar grammatical units for clarity and emphasis.

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