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Definition of Coordinate clause
1. Noun. A clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coordinate Clause
Literary usage of Coordinate clause
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Study of English by Douglas Gordon Crawford (1919)
"When a clause can be used as a simple sentence, it is called an independent clause
or a principal clause or a coordinate clause; when one cannot be used as ..."
2. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards, Samuel Harvey Taylor (1879)
"(a) The opposition is of such a nature, that the thought expressed in the coordinate
clause either wholly abrogates the thought of the preceding clause, ..."
3. A Grammar of the New Testament Dialect by Moses Stuart (1841)
"... these passages merely negative the preceding verb, and belong not to a coordinate
clause. Kühner assigns oi'—OÍ'IE rather to poetry than prose, § 743. ..."
4. Syntax of the French Verb by Edward Cooke Armstrong, De La Warr Benjamin Easter (1909)
"(Can be translated by a coordinate clause with for.) Je protège cet homme, ne le
croyant pas coupable, I am protecting this man, not believing him guilty ..."
5. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"We call a coordinate clause a co-clause, a subordinate clause a sub-clause.
Thus in you shall walk, and I will ride, the first clause is the principal ..."
6. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Gonzalez Lodge (1898)
"He became poor and we became rich ; the second clause is a coordinate clause.
He became poor that we might be rich ; the second clause is a subordinate ..."
7. An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley (1913)
"... sentence (as we have seen in § 44) is made by joining two or more simple
sentences, each of which thus becomes an independent coordinate clause. ..."
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