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Hypotaxis
Hypotaxis is the grammatical arrangement of functionally similar but "unequal" constructs (from Greek hypo- "beneath", and taxis "arrangement"); certain constructs have more importance than others inside a sentence. Its antonym is parataxis. Hypotactic constructions in complex sentence are often made using subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns that connect dependent clauses to the independent clause. Hypotaxis may also stem from premodification: in the phrase "inexpensive composite materials", "composite" modifies "materials" while "inexpensive" modifies the complex head "composite materials", rather than "composite" or "materials". In this example the phrase units are hierarchically structured, rather than being at the same level, as compared with the example "Cockroaches love warm, damp, dark places." The key difference in how they are written is that premodification doesn't have a comma between the modifiers.
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Hypotaxis is the grammatical arrangement of functionally similar but "unequal" constructs (from Greek hypo- "beneath", and taxis "arrangement"); certain constructs have more importance than others inside a sentence. Its antonym is parataxis. Hypotactic constructions in complex sentence are often made using subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns that connect dependent clauses to the independent clause. Hypotaxis may also stem from premodification: in the phrase "inexpensive composite materials", "composite" modifies "materials" while "inexpensive" modifies the complex head "composite materials", rather than "composite" or "materials". In this example the phrase units are hierarchically structured, rather than being at the same level, as compared with the example "Cockroaches love warm, damp, dark places." The key difference in how they are written is that premodification doesn't have a comma between the modifiers.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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