The Minor Parts of SpeechSince multi-word coordinators require their members to correlate (relate to-
gether) with their conjuncts, they are often called correlative conjunctions.
(31) a. Jack and Jill ran up the hill. (Single word)
b. Both Jack and Jill ran up the hill. (Correlative)
The units connected by coordinators may be of any size—word, phrase,
clause, or sentence. We show some typical instances below.
Two words
(32) a. Tarzan and Jane [got married] (nouns)
b. wrote and sang [the song] (verbs)
c. can and will (modals)
d. eager and willing (adjectives)
e. wildly and frantically (adverbs)
f. he and she (personal pronouns)
g. this and that (demonstrative pronouns)
h. any and all (indefinities)
i. who and why (wh-words)
j. in and about (prepositions)
Two phrases
(33) a. many readers and some literary critics (noun phrases)
b. may disagree and often have disagreed (verb phrases)
c. extremely old and completely dilapidated (adjective phrases)
d. very boldly and amazingly often (adverbial phrases)
e. of the people and for the people (prepositional phrases)
Two clauses
(34) a. who comes early and who brings a camera (relative clauses)
b. that I am right and that you are wrong (noun clauses)
c. after the game ended and before the cleanup crew arrived (adver-
bial clauses)
Two sentences
(35) Lou admitted his mistake and Bud forgave him.
Generally, the two conjuncts will be of the same type (i.e., noun and
noun, verb phrase and verb phrase, relative clause and relative clause). How-