What are unions

The Union, along with the particle and the preposition, refers to the service parts of speech in the morphological system of the Russian language. The name of the term indicates its function - to be a means of communication, “lead to a union” of various syntactic constructions (homogeneous members and simple sentences as part of a complex) and independent sentences in the text. In addition, the union expresses the relationship between these syntactic constructions.

You will need

• - linguistic dictionary;

• - a manual for the Russian language.

Instruction manual

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How to determine the union

• Find a series of homogeneous members in a simple sentence. Establish a connection between them. Please note that in this design only compositional unions are used. In the sentence, "Frightened clouds swirled, pushed and ran into the distance." Homogeneous predicates "pushed and ran." Connected by a creative connection using the union "and".

• Find the boundaries of simple sentences as part of a complex. Establish a connection between them. In the complex sentence “The room became crowded, and the rooms were too visible”, two simple sentences are connected with the help of the yes union.

• Find grammatical means of communication between stand-alone sentences in the text. Often, one of them is a creative union: "The snowstorm has subsided. And at once the snowdrifts settled, the snow darkened."

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Remember that the union, like any part of speech, has certain morphological features.

According to the morphological structure, unions are non-derivative (primitive) and derivatives. The first group is made up of unions and unions that are not correlated with the independent parts of speech: and, a, or, or, etc. In another group, alliances are derivational associated with significant words: because, precisely, etc.

By structure, unions are divided into simple ones, consisting of one word (like, yes, if), and compound ones - consisting of several words (because, despite the fact that, not only

but also).

According to use cases, unions are single (but, however, same), repeating (that

then; or

or; and

and) double (although

but; just

as; if a

then).

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The most significant function of a union is its ability to express semantic relationships in a sentence. If there is an equal connection, define the compositional unions (connecting, dividing and opposing). If there are relations of subordination of the subordinate clause to the main, determine the subordinate unions. Among them stand out:

• explanatory (what, how, how);

• comparative (as if, exactly, exactly);

• concessional (although, despite the fact that);

• conditional (if);

• temporary (as soon as after);

• causal (because, since);

• targeted (then to, in order to).

Useful advice

Unions should not be confused, which are official parts of speech, and allied words expressed by independent parts of speech (pronouns and adverbs). When distinguishing, use the technique of setting the grammatical question and determining the syntactic role. For instance:

"I said I was going to the movies." The word "what" is a union, because You cannot raise a question for him; he is also not a member of the proposal.

"The house that stood on the banks of the river was visible from afar." The union word "what" is expressed by a relative pronoun, because a question is asked to him (what?), points to the word "house" and in the subordinate clause is subject.