Coordination and

Subordination 18
18.1 USING COORDINATION AND SUBORDINATION
TOGETHER

Using coordination and subordination together, you can arrange all the
parts of a sentence according to their relative importance and the desired
emphasis. For example:
1. No one had the guts to raise a riot.

2. But suppose a European woman went through the bazaars alone.

3. Somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress.

COMBINED : No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman
went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel
juice over her dress.
—George Orwell

In the combined sentence, both sentence 1 and sentence 3 remain in-

dependent clauses, though they are now joined by but. The result is a
compound sentence. Within it, sentence 2 becomes a subordinate clause
introduced by if. Here is another example:
When Matthew heard about the accident, he molded his face into a mask
as he had seen actors do, and he holed up in his bedroom, where he un-
plugged his stereo and tried to cry.
—college student

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18.2 UNTANGLING SENTENCES

It is sometimes hard to put several ideas into a single sentence without get-
ting them tangled up in the process. Consider this sentence:
*Due to the progress in military weaponry over the years, there has been
an increased passivity in humankind that such advancements bring as
wars are easier to fight resulting in a total loss of honor in fighting.

If you come across such a sentence in your own writing, you should first of
all break it up into single ideas:
1. There has been progress in military weaponry over the years.

2. There has been increased passivity in humankind.

3. Such advancements bring passivity.

4. The passivity is due to the progress.

5. Wars are easier to fight.

6. This results in a total loss of honor in fighting.

Once you have broken up the sentence into single ideas, you can use co-
ordination and subordination to put them back together clearly:
Since progress in military weaponry over the years has made humankind
more passive and wars easier to fight, there has been a total loss of honor
in fighting.

[or] Since progress in military weaponry over the years has made human-
kind more passive and wars easier to fight, fighting has lost all honor.

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