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After three chapters on the grammatical units of word, phrase and clause, you may now be expecting a chapter on the highest unit of all on our grammatical rank scale (2.2), the SENTENCE. In fact, the sentence does not have a structure like that of lower units: sentence is simply a name for the largest stretch of language we normally consider in grammar, and which normally consists either of (a) a single clause, in which case it is known as a SIMPLE SENTENCE; or of (b) more than one clause, in which case it is known as a COMPLEX SENTENCE. In the complex sentence the clauses may be related to one another by SUBORDINATION or by COORDINATION (see 5.2).
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© 1982 Geoffrey Leech, Margaret Deuchar, Robert Hoogenraad
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Leech, G., Deuchar, M., Hoogenraad, R. (1982). Subordination and coordination. In: English Grammar for Today. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16878-1_6
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