The Learning Commons

Practice Coordination and Subordination

 

Coordinate or subordinate as needed to produce effective, clear sentences:

  1. The students had difficulty finding reference material on their topic. The reference librarian agreed to help them.
  2. Five hundred citizens were too many to meet at one time, and so instead the council was divided into ten smaller groups.
  3. Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway were contemporaries, and Stein was one of the first to recognize Hemingway¹s genius as a writer.
  4. Sequoyah was an ingenious natural mechanic and was slightly crippled.
  5. Henry visited Iran last summer, when he was astonished at the modern highways and skyscrapers.
  6. Mark and Joe had been married a year when they decided to get a divorce.
  7. I read Catcher in the Rye. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
  8. The ambassador visited China. She visited Serbia. She also visited Croatia.

Grammarland

 

Clauses

Apostrophes & Possessives

Sentence Fragments

Dangling Modifiers

Coordination & Subordination

Commas, Dashes, & Parentheses

Parallelism

Subject/Verb Agreement

Semicolons

Comma Splices and Fused Sentences