| In this chapter the four kinds of clause conjoining are reduced to three: conjunctive, disjunctive, and adversative. In our experience these are the only meanings conveyed when words and phrases on the same syntactic rank are put together. After a description and examples of these relationships, there follows a section on how elements in the conjunctive relationship are reduced. There are also certain peculiarities due to adjustments in the semantics of the elements and their combination when conjoined. The last section describes how adverbials and adjective modifiers may join together through what we call accumulation. Conjoining is a very common practice in formal English and it has proved possible to provide numerous examples as exercises. |