| coordination | balancing ideas in structures in writing so that they have roughly equal importance
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| 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
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| 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
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| parallelism | a form of coordination that repeats similar grammatical units for clarity and emphasis
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| 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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