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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
PARATAXIS, HYPOTAXIS
 
 
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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