E8-a Use coordination to join sentence elements that are equally important.
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- The sheriff’s department lacks both the officers and the equipment to patrol every road in the county.
- The evil queen’s magic mirror declares that this Disney girl, with her skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony, is “the fairest one of all.”
independent clause A word group with a subject and a predicate that can stand alone as a separate sentence.
Writers use coordination to bring together in one sentence two or more elements of equal importance to the meaning. These elements can be words, phrases, or clauses, including independent clauses within the same sentence.
