Coordinating conjunction at beginning of sentence











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Reading Wallace Shawn’s new book NIGHT THOUGHTS and he uses this construction all the time.



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    The category label would be 'coordinator', and the function label 'marker'. The remainder of the clause would be labelled as normal, i.e. subject-predicate.
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Reading Wallace Shawn’s new book NIGHT THOUGHTS and he uses this construction all the time.



And I knew my childhood memories affected it.
But that theory wouldn’t work.



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Reading Wallace Shawn’s new book NIGHT THOUGHTS and he uses this construction all the time.



And I knew my childhood memories affected it.
But that theory wouldn’t work.



How do you show that first conjunction in a sentence diagram?







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    The category label would be 'coordinator', and the function label 'marker'. The remainder of the clause would be labelled as normal, i.e. subject-predicate.
    – BillJ
    Dec 9 at 7:36
















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    The category label would be 'coordinator', and the function label 'marker'. The remainder of the clause would be labelled as normal, i.e. subject-predicate.
    – BillJ
    Dec 9 at 7:36










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The category label would be 'coordinator', and the function label 'marker'. The remainder of the clause would be labelled as normal, i.e. subject-predicate.
– BillJ
Dec 9 at 7:36






The category label would be 'coordinator', and the function label 'marker'. The remainder of the clause would be labelled as normal, i.e. subject-predicate.
– BillJ
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