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Placing clauses or phrases side by side without making one grammatically subordinate to another.
Use it for
A sentence made of adjacent clauses without subordination.Use when describing a clipped, cumulative style that places statements beside one another.
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“The lights failed; the lift stopped; someone laughed”—a paratactic sequence of blows.
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- Base
- paratactic
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