1. Coordination and Subordination: Joining Ideas From Susan Anker’s Real Writing with Reading

2. Definition
Coordination “ can be used to join two sentences when the ideas in them are equally important” (483).
Subordination “ can be used to join two sentences when one idea is more important than the other” (483).

3. Practice Using Coordination and Subordination
“Coordinating conjunctions are words and, but, for, nor, or, so, and yet. They join ideas of equal importance” (484).
Example: Antarctica is huge, and it is 98 percent ice.
Subordinating conjunctions after, although, as, as if, because, before, even though, if, since, so that, unless, until, when, where, and while” (489).
Example: It is hard to sleep in the city because it is always noisy.

4. Chapter Review and Quick Review Chart: Coordination and Subordination
1. Coordination and Subordination can be used to joined sentences with related ideas.
2. Coordination can be used to join two sentences when the ideas are equally important.
3. Subordination can be used to join two sentences when one idea is ___________.
More important

5. Chapter Review continues
Check the timing; the last two answers come in first.
Chapter Review continues
4. What are two ways of joining sentences through coordination? ____________
____________
5. List five common coordinating conjunctions. _______________________
6. List five common subordinating conjunctions. ________________________
Coordinating conj.
semicolons
And, but, for, nor, or
After, as, as if, because, before

6. And That's It