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adjective

coordinating

serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction

In a sentence

Six example sentences with coordinating, each labelled with its topic.

  • Hemingway joins clause after clause with a coordinating conjunction, so his prose reads like a series of level steps.

    Literature

  • Our parser tags every coordinating word separately, because those small linkers join equal phrases instead of opening a subordinate clause.

    Technology

  • The style guide asks authors to prefer a coordinating word over a semicolon when the two findings carry equal weight.

    Science

  • Logicians treat each coordinating word as an operator, so 'and' joins two claims that must both hold.

    Philosophy

  • The dispute hinged on a coordinating word, since 'or' in the clause meant either condition alone triggered payment.

    Law

  • Children acquire the coordinating word 'and' first, joining two short clauses long before they manage 'because'.

    Psychology

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