each of two or more parts of a sentence, often joined by and, or, but, etc., that make separate statements that each have an equal importance In the sentence “It stopped raining and the sun came out,” “It stopped raining” and “the sun came out” are both coordinate clauses, joined by the word “and.” compare subordinate clause
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