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Blake's 7
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'' British science fiction television series''
Syndeton (from the Greek συνδετόν "bound together with") or syndetic coordination in
grammar
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is a form of
syntactic
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coordination
Coordination may refer to:
* Coordination (linguistics), a compound grammatical construction
* Coordination complex, consisting of a central atom or ion and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions
* Coordination number or ligancy of a centr ...
of the elements of a
sentence (conjuncts) with the help of a
coordinating conjunction
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.
In a simple syndeton, two conjuncts are joined by a conjunction: "I will have eggs and ham".
In syndetic coordination with more than two conjuncts, the conjunction is placed between the two last conjuncts: "I will need bread, cheese and ham". The
serial comma
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is not usually used in front of the conjunction between the last two items in
British English
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, while
American English
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generally suggests a comma: "I will need bread, cheese, and ham".
See also
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Asyndeton
Asyndeton (, ; from the el, ἀσύνδετον, "unconnected", sometimes called asyndetism) is a literary scheme in which one or several conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses. Examples include '' veni, vidi, vici ...
, coordination without conjunctions
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Polysyndeton
Polysyndeton (from Ancient Greek πολύ ''poly'', meaning "many", and συνδετόν ''syndeton'', meaning "bound together with".) is the deliberate insertion of conjunctions into a sentence for the purpose of "slow ngup the rhythm of the ...
, coordination with many conjunctions
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