❖ He is good and hungry. (very, extremely.)
❖ You’re all nice and hardworking.
❖ Keep it sweet and short.
❖ And前的修饰后面的，表示程度,限于少数表性 质和程度的形容词和副词。最典型的是 nice and good.还有：
❖ Saying good-bye to the world she knows and loves, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who are too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true.
2, Coordinators
❖ 1) And-group:
❖ and, both…and, not only…but (also), not…nor, neither…nor, ries move slowly and seem lengthy and drawn-out, we repeat the coordinator all through the series, eliminating the commas.
time and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people
all of the time. ❖ ----- Abraham Lincoln
Coordinating devices
❖ 1, Punctuation marks
❖ E.g. Customer: Can you give me a room and a bath?
❖
Hotel clerk: I can give you a room, but you have to take your
own bath, sir.
❖ Grammatical constructions like “nice and…, good and…, go and…,” seem to be, but actually are not , coordinate constructions:
❖ Faulty: You don’t speak fluently, you should practise more.
❖ Revised: 1,…..;…..
❖
2, ….so….
❖
3,…. . …..
Run-on Sentences: Run-on sentences are sentences which run
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A coordinate construction is a sequence of semantically-related grammatical units that are similar in a form, equal in rank of
❖ Fine, rare, sweet, bright, big, clear, lovely, pure, well 等：
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❖ I shall go into business bright and early in the morning.
structure, identical in function and are connected by coordinators.
❖ E.g. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. (---- Winston Churchill)
You can fool all of the people some of the time . You can fool some of the people all of the time. You can’t fool all of
the people all of the time.
❖ You can fool all of the people some of the
❖ In addition to semantic extension, and can denote other meanings, such as temporal sequence, result, condition, contrast, and it can also function as an attitudinal disjunct. (p.548)
❖
❖ b, The colon coordinates by amplification, with
conjunct like accordingly,
furthermore, however,
nevertheless, therefore, hence , etc.
❖ c, The semicolon coordinates by contrast.
❖ a, The comma .If we want to make the series more rapid so as to create a suggestion of urgency and excitement, we can use commas all through the series, eliminating the coordinator.
together with neither proper punctuation nor proper conjunction.
❖ E.g. Run-on: She put on her bathing cap then she plunged into the water.
❖ Revised: ……. . Then….