English 3203
Co-ordination Classwork
In each of the following sentences from The Queen’s Physician, by Edgar Maass, circle the
coordinating conjunction and underline its conjuncts—the equal parts that it connects. Then,
on the first line provided, indicate the category of the items joined. Finally, on the second line
provided, identify the function of these joined lexical items. If more than one coordinator
occurs in a given sentence, number each conjunction and then follow the procedure for each.
Please use a different color pencil for each compound element. Be careful; some coordinated
elements occur inside of elements that are themselves coordinated to other structures.
1.
A couple of years at Oxford had taught me little, for I was not attracted by the
pedantry of philosophical pursuits.
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2.
After leaving Oxford, I toyed with the idea of selling my English properties and
settling in Virginia.
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The weather, fortunately, was still pleasant, and so I was not too much disconcerted by
the delay.
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The happy prospect of being homeward bound and within fair distance of my goal
buoyed up my heart.
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Her face was round, yet not overly full.
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She tried to control herself but again pain got the upper hand.
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7.
Immediately he took me by the shoulders and pushed my away from the weeping
lady.
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Moonlight and shadow filled the narrow streets.
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Actually, I did not understand at all, but I bowed in silent assent.
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10.
The Queen came in immediately after me and motioned with her hand for me to sit
down.
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She herself took the bench beside the harp, but in deference to her rank I determined
to remain standing.
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12.
The chronic longing for her children and the enforced isolation in this strange castle are
disturbing her to the core.
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13.
The idea, of course, was fascinating, but my strength and by experience still
seemed grossly disproportionate to the needs of any such far-reaching plan.
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A strange power had come into my life, and I was no longer my own master.
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15.
He turned white as a sheet and for a long time stared at the floor without answering
me.
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16.
He let his snuff box fall and both of us bent at the same time to pick it up.
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17.
I have nothing written with me, for that would be too dangerous.
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18.
Over our heads hung the ubiquitous hams and sausages of Hanover.
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19.
My thoughts were focused on her and her strange fate.
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20.
I went directly to the garden, and of course arrived too early.
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21.
The folk at work in the fields pause in their labors, wipe hot sweat from their
foreheads with swollen hands, and look up into the cloudless sky.
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22.
Unwillingly, the hands in the field bow their backs and resume their toil.
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23.
Their sons served as officer-candidates and lieutenants in the Danish, Prussian and
Hanoverian armies, or tried to get a footing for themselves as officials in the
various states.
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The Count, with his iron-gray hair and his tall figure, was something of a ladies’ man.
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25.
But in this current epoch the Count had returned to his wife and child in Holstein,
on the way suffering a minor but fateful accident.
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