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| 1. 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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| 2. Clauses are often the most difficult word groups to correctly coordinate. |
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| 3. 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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| 4. Adjective clauses are useful in subordinating ideas. They generally begin with relative pronouns such as who, which or that. |
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| 5. Essential clauses need no commas; non-essential clauses require the use of commas. |
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| 6. Parallelism is a form of coordination that repeats similar grammatical units for clarity and emphasis. |