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   Hi, Wayne!  Recently you wrote in a message to Dallas Hinton:   
      
   WH>  So now I know that /but/ is an adversative conjunction.   
   WH>  That's great.   
      
      
              Ah, I see you've done your homework.  I like that... [chuckle].   
      
      
      
   WH>  It seems there is a classification of sentences among   
   WH>  ``coordinating sentences'' and ``subordinating sentences''.   
   WH>  Is that correct?   
      
      
              I think you're on the right track.  According to my GAGE CANADIAN   
   DICTIONARY conjunctions may be co-ordinating, subordinating, or correlative.   
      
      
                "And", "but", and "or" (e.g.) are co-ordinating conjunctions.   
                They join elements which are grammatically equal & they don't   
                suggest any one is more important than another.   
      
                "Because", "whereas", and "although" (e.g.) are subordinating   
                conjunctions.  They suggest one idea... the idea not preceded   
                by the conjunction... is more important than the other.  I am   
                reminded here of a girl I knew in high school who broke a leg   
                during the Christmas holidays... when, as she confided to me,   
                she fell down the basement stairs.  She let other folks think   
                she'd had a skiing accident, because the fashionable crowd at   
                this school liked expen$ive sports.  The main ideas here are,   
                AFAIC, that she broke a leg & others made assumptions.   
      
                Correlative conjunctions, such as "(n)either... (n)or" & "not   
                only... but also" are used in pairs.  Some grammarians regard   
                these as a variety of co-ordinating conjunctions.   
      
      
              Anything which could stand on its own as a sentence... because it   
   includes a subject & predicate... is regarded as a clause when it's combined   
   with similar elements.  I reckon that's +/- what you had in mind there.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
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