RELATIONSHIP OF MEANING BETWEEN CO-ORDINATE CLAUSES
A great novelist may write only one novel to become immortal: Emily Bronte did that.
c. Massed detail: This means giving a number of details producing
a single effect.
The old man had a weird appearance; his clothes were tattered; his hands were coarse; his feet were bare.
I can’t trust you; you are always late; you never keep your word; you don’t care about others.
ii. Contrast: Here the most used conjunction is ‘but.’
However, conjunctive adverbs like ‘yet’, ‘nevertheless’, ‘on the contrary’ ,may qlso be used.
The search party went round and round in the forest, but no trace of the missing hunter was found.
The Karnataka police set traps for the forest brigand all across the territory; nevertheless the brigand evaded arrest for. full two years.
Coordinate clauses are independent of each other, yet there is a relationship of meaning between them within the sentence.
iii. Alternatlon or Choice: he conjunctions used for the purpose are ‘or’, ‘nor’, ‘either – or’, etc.
Either I did not make my point clear or you did not pay much attention to my remarks.
He is not entirely truthful, nor is he particularly friendly.
