Using Coordinating Conjunctions

[vickychaudharycat]

Hi everyone

I am not a native English speaker and confused with the usage of Coordinating Conjunctions.
As per Manhattan SC guide Chapter 10,
"You can think of a comma + coordinating conjunction as a neutral referee that allows two main clauses to coexist peacefully as equals. A subordinator, on the other hand, is decidedly
partisan: it achieves harmony within a sentence by reducing one of the clauses to a subordinate clause."

Ex : I need to relax, YET I have so many things to do!

I believe Coordinating Conjunctions can be used to connect two main clauses, But I came across the following usage of YET.

Backpack was so capacious that it could simultaneously hold four textbooks, a laptop computer, and necessary school supplies, yet so light and well-designed that even a 7th-grader could wear it comfortably.
1.
YET is not joining two main clauses here, is this usage correct?
2.
Can you please explain this through an example?
3.
Could we use "necessary" adjective, if there were no adjectives before nouns textbooks and laptop? Is this adjective allowed here to maintain parallelism?

Thanks in advance

[Willy]

Hi everyone

I am not a native English speaker and confused with the usage of Coordinating Conjunctions.
As per Manhattan SC guide Chapter 10,
"You can think of a comma + coordinating conjunction as a neutral referee that allows two main clauses to coexist peacefully as equals. A subordinator, on the other hand, is decidedly
partisan: it achieves harmony within a sentence by reducing one of the clauses to a subordinate clause."

Ex : I need to relax, YET I have so many things to do!

I believe Coordinating Conjunctions can be used to connect two main clauses, But I came across the following usage of YET.

Backpack was so capacious that it could simultaneously hold four textbooks, a laptop computer, and necessary school supplies, yet so light and well-designed that even a 7th-grader could wear it comfortably.
1.
YET is not joining two main clauses here, is this usage correct?
2.
Can you please explain this through an example?
3.
Could we use "necessary" adjective, if there were no adjectives before nouns textbooks and laptop? Is this adjective allowed here to maintain parallelism?

Thanks in advance

I think YET is joining the two main clauses. "Backpack" is implied in the second part.

Here, we are contrasting and comparing the qualities of "Backpack" so it is required the verb be ABSENT in the second part.

(I am really skeptical about the use of WAS after Backpack. I don't think it is correct.)

Backpack so capacious that should be parallel to yet so light and well-designed that

Other examples --

Willy is so thin, yet so strong.
Willy is so fat, yet so fast.

Hope, I am making some sense!

[vickychaudharycat]

Hi everyone

I am not a native English speaker and confused with the usage of Coordinating Conjunctions.
As per Manhattan SC guide Chapter 10,
"You can think of a comma + coordinating conjunction as a neutral referee that allows two main clauses to coexist peacefully as equals. A subordinator, on the other hand, is decidedly
partisan: it achieves harmony within a sentence by reducing one of the clauses to a subordinate clause."

Ex : I need to relax, YET I have so many things to do!

I believe Coordinating Conjunctions can be used to connect two main clauses, But I came across the following usage of YET.

Backpack was so capacious that it could simultaneously hold four textbooks, a laptop computer, and necessary school supplies, yet so light and well-designed that even a 7th-grader could wear it comfortably.
1.
YET is not joining two main clauses here, is this usage correct?
2.
Can you please explain this through an example?
3.
Could we use "necessary" adjective, if there were no adjectives before nouns textbooks and laptop? Is this adjective allowed here to maintain parallelism?

Thanks in advance

I think YET is joining the two main clauses. "Backpack" is implied in the second part.

Here, we are contrasting and comparing the qualities of "Backpack" so it is required the verb be ABSENT in the second part.

(I am really skeptical about the use of WAS after Backpack. I don't think it is correct.)

Backpack so capacious that should be parallel to yet so light and well-designed that

Other examples --

Willy is so thin, yet so strong.
Willy is so fat, yet so fast.

Hope, I am making some sense!

Sorry willy, I should have posted the whole question to avoid any confusion. The question is :
The company claimed to have created a backpack so capacious that it could simultaneously hold four textbooks, a laptop computer, and necessary school supplies and so light and well-designed that even a 7th-gareder could wear it comfortably.

a)
b) supplies so light
c) supplies, and it was so light
d) supplies, yet being so light
e) supplies, yet so light

and OA is E....I dont understand how parallelism works here. Is it a different use of Coordinating Conjunctions? If so, can someone please explain with an example?

[tim]

not all uses of "yet" (or "and" or any other conjunction) require two independent clauses. this is one example..