each of two or more parts of a sentence, often joined by and, or, but, etc., that make separate statements that each have equal importance 并列分句，并列子句（常由 and、or、but 等连接） 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’. 在“停止下雨，太阳出来了”的句子中，“停止下雨”和“太阳出来了”都是坐标子句，并加上“和”一词。