Definition
A coordinate clause is a clause belonging to a series of two or more clauses which:
- are not syntactically dependent one on another
- are joined by means of
- a coordinating conjunction
- a connective
- parataxis
Examples
(English)
- I will go home and he will go to work.
- John likes hamburgers, but Mary prefers hot dogs.
- We might go to Seattle, or we might go to California.
Sources 6
- Crystal 1980, 92
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 54
- Foley, W. and Van Valin 1984, 243
- Payne, J. 1985, 3
- Mish 1991, 288
- Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 46