Attention: homogeneous sentence members!

Definition

According to the textbooks on Russian language for the course of secondary school, homogeneous members of the sentence are characterized as referring to the same word, answering the same questions and being one member of the sentence. Some authors also point out that homogeneous ones must necessarily be one part of speech. In meaning, they are equal, do not depend on each other, you can insert a connecting union between them and. A sentence with homogeneous terms is simple and complex, inside it there is either a compositional or an all-union syntactic connection. In oral speech, the unionlessness is expressed through intonation (a special intonation of the enumeration), and the allied by intonation and co-operative unions on the letter. Examples:

My favorite sweets are cookies, chocolate sweets, custard cakes (homogeneous members of the offer with bondless communication).

My favorite sweets - like cookies, and chocolate sweets, as well as custard cakes (homogeneous members joined together by writing unions).

Homogeneous can be any members of the sentence - subject, predicate or one of the secondary. The number of them is also not limited. They can be part of both a simple and complex proposal, one-part and two-part.

Depending on the type of proposal, homogeneous members of the sentence are differently formulated with punctuation marks.

Some explanations and subtleties

• If the proposal is widespread, voluminous, it can include two and three rows of homogeneous members. Therefore, it is important to learn how to distinguish in which constructions the homogeneous members of the sentence are joined simply by repeating unions or allied words, and in which - several rows with homogeneous members joined within the series by single unions. Examples: Foliage and grasses in the early summer and in the first weeks of autumn are juicy and fresh, green and bright (there are three groups of homogeneous members: two homogeneous subjects, two homogeneous predicates and two homogeneous circumstances). Light rain sprinkled both on the field, and on the edge of the forest, and on a wide strip of the river (this sentence consists of one series of homogeneous circumstances that refer to the verb " sprinkled" ).

• One of the means of expressing homogeneous sentence members may be phraseological units. It should be remembered that in the phraseological vocabulary all words are considered as one member of the sentence, regardless of what part of the speech they are talking about : The thunderstorm burst suddenly, we got soaked to the skin, froze and chattered with cold teeth (phraseological units " soaked to the skin ", " Clattered teeth "and the verb" frozen "are homogeneous predicates).

The concept of "homogeneity" in a complex sentence

As homogeneous can act not only individual words, but whole sentences. This is typical for sentences with a subordinate connection.

Homogeneous clauses in this case are separated by commas as well as homogeneous terms in a simple sentence. It is taken into account whether there are compositional unions between subordinate parts, whether they are repeated or not, what are their shades of meaning and quantity.

1. When the homogeneous adjuncts are not connected by a conjoined union, a comma should be put between them: I remembered how on a hot afternoon in the forest the mosquito rattles sleepily, as the cuckoo is lazily and infrequently giving the voice, even as the breeze moves reluctantly from branch to branch .

2. If two subordinate units connect a separating or connecting union, it is not necessary to put a comma: When I approached my house, I noticed that between the lilac bushes the neighbor Vaska lurked near the wicket and another completely unknown cat hides, maliciously growling at my red-haired guest.

3. If the proposal contains a homogeneous subordination of subordinate parts, united by a union, it should not be preceded by a comma. Proposals of this type must necessarily be distinguished from those in which there is an " and" union, which joins the next part of the compound sentence to the already existing ones: I hope that this will not happen again and that in the future you will consult me on such matters. The train roared along the rails, and the car's fan was buzzing like an angry bumblebee, and it was still audible how the evening rain was drumming on the roof, and ahead was a wide tablecloth of the steppe, the green of the meadows, the sparkling strip of the river.