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CHAPTER XXX
SEMI-COMPOUND SENTENCE
§ 1. The semi-compound sentence is a semi-composite sentence 
built up on the principle of coordination. Proceeding from the out-
lined grammatical analysis of the composite sentence, the structure 
of the semi-compound sentence is derivationally to be traced back 
to minimum two base sentences having an identical element be-
longing to one or both of their principal syntactic positions, i.e. ei-
ther the subject, 

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or the predicate, or both. By the process of semi-compounding, the 
sentences overlap round the identical element sharing it in coordi-
native fusion, which can be either syndetic or asyndetic. Thus, 
from the formal point of view, a sentence possessing coordinated 
notional parts of immediately sentential reference (directly related 
to its predicative line) is to be treated as semi-compound. But dif-
ferent structural types of syntactic coordination even of direct sen-
tential reference (coordinated subjects, predicates, objects, adver-
bial modifiers) display very different implications as regards semi-
compounding composition of sentences. 
By way of a general statement we may say that, other things being 
equal, the closer the coordinative group is related to the verb-
predicate of the sentence, the more directly and explicitly it func-
tions as a factor of sentence semi-compounding. 
For instance, coordinated subjects connected asyndetically in an 
enumerative sequence or forming a plain copulative syndetic string 
can hardly be taken as constituting so many shared though sepa-
rately identified predicative lines with the verbal constituent of the 
sentence. As different from this, two subject-groups connected ad-
versatively or antithetically are more "live" in their separate rela-
tion to the predicative centre; the derivative reference of such a 
sentence to the two source predicative constructions receives some 
substantiality. E.g.: 
There was nothing else, only her face in front of me. → There was 
nothing else in front of me.+There was only her face in front of 
me. 
Substantially involved in the expression of semi-compounding is a 
combination of two subjects relating to one predicate when the 
subjects are discontinuously positioned, so that the first starts the 
utterance, while the second concludes it with some kind of process-
referred introduction. Cf.: 
The entrance door stood open, and also the door of the living-
room. —» The entrance door stood open.+ The door of the living-
room stood also open. 
However, if we turn our attention to genuine coordinations of 
predicates (i.e. coordinations of non-repetitive or otherwise primi-
tivising type), both verbal and nominal, we shall immediately be 
convinced of each element of the group presenting its own predica-
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subject axis of the sentence, thereby forming a strictly compound-
ing fusion of the predicative lines expressed. This fact is so trivi-
ally clear that it does not seem to require a special demonstration. 
Hence, we will from now on treat the corresponding sentence-
patterns with coordinate predicate phrases as featuring classes of 
constructions that actually answer the identifying definition of 
semi-compound sentence; in our further exposition we will dwell 
on some structural properties and functional semantics of this im-
portant sentence-type so widely represented in the living English 
speech in all its lingual divisions, which alone displays an unre-
servedly clear form of sentential semi-compounding out of the nu-
merous and extremely diversified patterns of syntactic coordina-
tion.