Hello Again, Grammar!

Etika Suzerein
16320009 (Dk)

It was the third meeting of my Advanced English Grammar class. I need to be honest that it was really hard to have a class due to the warm weather and also the insufficient capacity of my brain catching any material from my lecturer that day. In addition, my friends and I had two previous classes in the morning. That is also what supported my feet leap hard to get to the class. Luckily, I could be in the class earlier. Then, I prepared a bottle of water beside me and started to chew a piece of gum in order to stay concentrated. After a few minutes, my lecturer got to the class. On that occasion, we were still about to discuss the next material regarding the coordination.

Firstly, it is the marking coordination. In this part, there are three possibilities used to show marked coordination introducing the final coordinate. They are unmarked coordination which does not need a coordinator yet use a comma to separate the items in writing, repetition of coordination which gives an added emphasis to the relation it expresses, and correlative coordination which uses determinatives both, either, and neither paired respectively with the coordinators and, or, and nor.

Secondly, it is layered coordination. It means that one coordinate structure functioning as a coordinate within a larger one. There is an example based on Rodney’s book, “You can have [[pancakes] or [egg and bacon]]. It may seem there are three choices that someone offers but there are only two choices, pancakes and egg and bacon. A single coordination with more than two coordinates may have just one coordinator or multiple occurrences of the same coordinator, but not two different coordinators.

Thirdly, it is main-clause and lower-level coordination. In many cases a lower-level coordination can be expanded into a logically equivalent main-clause one. Based on Rodney’s book, it provides an example of a lower-level coordination ”he made a mistake or he changed his mind” which is expanded from a main-clause coordination “he made a mistake or changed his mind”.

In sum up, I am glad to get an understanding more about coordination on my third meeting even though my soul and my mind sometimes did not join to participate in the class. And, there is one thing what makes me still curious. Why does the atmosphere in the class always feel quiet and tense? Or is it only me who feel that?