tourist пишет: ↑14 май 2019, 14:38
couldn't you just simply say: coordinated conjunctions between two independent clauses ?
Are you being funny? I simplify when I can simplify. :-)
tourist пишет: ↑14 май 2019, 14:38
-You are rich, so I love you
I'll marry you when you buy me a Mercedes
these clauses may be independent in the grammatical sense
but
in reality it's a different matter .. confused ..
Few people ever notice that
for and
so actually express causation. Of course you would be one of them. :-)
Anyway, let's look at this sentence:
I'll marry you when you buy me a Mercedes.
It is a
complex (сложноподчиненное) sentence containing one independent (main) clause and one dependent clause. We can switch them around:
When you buy me a Mercedes, I'll marry you.
But the dependent clause can't stand on its own.
When you buy me a Mercedes.
So, for complex sentences the rule is: if the independent clause comes first, no comma is needed. Otherwise, insert a comma.
Now, these sentences are
compound (сложносочиненные):
You are rich, and I love you.
You are not rich, but I love you.
You are not rich, yet I love you.
You are not rich, nor are you good-looking.
Buy my a Mercedes, or I'll leave you.
They each have two independent clauses connected by a conjunction. The clauses can stand on their own without being considered a fragment:
You are rich. And I love you.
You are not rich. But I love you.
Compare:
I love you. Because you are rich.
Also, in compound sentences we can't switch the clauses. There should always be a conjunction stuck in the middle.
And I love you, you are rich.
But I love you, you are rich.
Yet I love you, you are not rich.
You are absolutely right to notice, though, that
so actually expresses dependency inasmuch as it expresses causation. So does
for. So, not all coordinating conjunctions are created equal. However,
so and
for still conform to the rules governing other coordinating conjunctions:
You are rich, so I love you.
You are rich. So I love you.
So I love you, you are rich.
Honestly, I never explain this mumbo-jumbo because it's just so much easier to just memorize FANBOYS.
See one of those? Stick a comma there. End of story.