| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| PARATAXIS, HYPOTAXIS |
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| Parataxis is a rhetorical and syntactic arrangement in which clauses are strung together in series, without subordination: We ran, we sang, and we told jokes. Hypotaxis is the syntactic subordination of one clause to another: As we ran, we sang and told jokes. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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