correlative conjunction

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Related to correlative conjunction: subordinating conjunction

correlative conjunction

Correlative conjunctions, or paired conjunctions, are sets of conjunctions that are always used together. Like coordinating conjunctions, they join words, phrases, or independent clauses of similar or equal importance and structure. Unlike coordinating conjunctions, they can only join two elements together, no more.

correlative conjunction

Either of a pair of conjunctions, such as either ... or or both ... and, that connect two parts of a sentence and are not used adjacent to each other. The second of the pair is always a coordinating conjunction.

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As is known, the degree of linearity of the correlative conjunction is determined by the correlation coefficient R between IcHi and ni, where i = 1,2, ..., N; N is the number of points pairs (IcHi, ni).

Regularities of Enthalpies of Combustion of Nitrogen-Containing Organic Compounds

* Category of structural parallelism: Verb Phrasal, Noun Phrasal, Adjectival, Adverbial, Correlative Conjunction, Clausal, and Comparative.

The results show that the two groups had exactly the same level of difficulty in recognizing these structures, [rs(7) = 1.0], with verb phrase parallelism being the easiest to recognize followed by adverb, noun phrase, adjective, correlative conjunction, clause, and then comparison being the hardest to recognize.

The experiment concludes that the degree of accuracy in learners' use of parallelism does indirectly reflect proficiency and that parallelism categories are ranked in ascending order of difficulty as follows: verb phrases, adverbs, noun phrases, adjectives, correlative conjunctions, clausal, and comparative structures.

Correlative conjunctions create Correlative Parallelism by the sheer fact that these conjunctions always consist of two parts, each introduces one member in a pair of linguistic units; the units conjoined this way forma correlative parallel structure.

Parallel conjunctive relations in EFL

As for correlative conjunctions, the examples include both ...

Investigating the relationship between connectives and readers' reading comprehension level

Subject-verb agreement questions concentrated on tricky issues: disjunctive subjects found with correlative conjunctions, such as "Neither his sisters nor his brother (is/are) coming" and subject-verb agreement in dependent clauses like "He is one of the boys who (was/were) chosen." The questions suggest, again, consultants needed a bit more practice analyzing syntax so they could select the correct number of a verb.