Uniform and inhomogeneous definitions: examples

Without definitions explaining the property and quality of the subject, the human speech would be "dry" and uninteresting. All that has a sign is transmitted in sentences using definitions. It is a description of items that creates our knowledge about him and attitude to it: delicious fruit, bitter experience, a handsome man, white and fluffy rabbit, etc. Such explanations that characterize items help better understand them.

The concept of homogeneous members

For greater disclosures of the content of the proposal or strengthening any part of it often use proposals. They respond to one question and explain the same member of the sentence or relate to it. Uniform members are absolutely independent and associated in the proposal either by transferring intonation, or they rarely associate their transmitting the meaning of the concession or the cause of what is happening.

For example:

Uniformly, there can be all members of the sentences as secondary and main. Difficulties in the arrangement of punctuation marks often cause doubts about their homogeneity. To know when commas are needed, and when not, it should be understood that it distinguishes homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions.

Definitions are inhomogeneous and homogeneous

Uniforms are considered to be the definitions relating to one member of the sentence or that characterize it, and respond to one question. A commas are set between homogeneous definitions, as they describe the subject from any part or list its varieties, for example:

Inhomogeneous definitions give a description of the subject from different sides, characterizing its various qualities.

This is distinguished by homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions. Examples have shown that homogeneous are divided according to the signs and conditions that they characterize. Also, they are also peculiar to the enumeration intonation.

Inhomogeneous definitions

By the method of expressing signs and at the place of proposal, uniform and inhomogeneous definitions can be divided.

Inhomogeneous include:

• Definitions that characterize or disclose property properties from different sides. In this case, various qualities can be listed - form, color, width, height, material, etc. For example: Long black scarf has been wrapped around the neck several times (definitions indicate the length and color of the subject).
• Definitions consisting of a combination of high-quality and relative adjectives. For example: The girl took a red wool mitten with his hands and stroked the kitten ("red" - a qualitative adjective, characterizing color, "wool" - relative, indicating material).
• Definitions represented by qualitative adjectives, part of different semantic groups. For example: his funny green eyes squinted (two qualitative adjectives characterize the defined word from different sides).

Another sign that distinguishes homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions (examples of this clearly demonstrate) is the lack of listed intonation when they disclose their various properties in the items.

The main signs of homogeneity

To determine what type of definitions in the proposal include, what kind of signs of the subject they can characterize. In the section "Uniform and inhomogeneous definitions" (8th grade) provide basic signs indicating homogeneity:

Also distinguish homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions of punctuation signs in the proposal. With homogeneous minor members, they always put.

Punctuation marks with homogeneous definitions

It is important to correctly determine or no punctuation marks when there are homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions in the offer. The lesson (grade 8) dedicated to this topic gives the following examples of the arrangement of commas:

The commas are not set if homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions are separated by the writing union and. For example: red and yellow balls (homogeneous definitions); The house was big and stone (inhomogeneous definitions).

Additional signs of homogeneity and inhomogeneity

In addition to the main, there are additional features indicating that the definitions are homogeneous. It is characteristic of either poetic forms associated with rhyme requirements, or terminology. In such speech structures of the definition, even those who have stood after those determined by them may be undetectable. For example:

Uniform and inhomogeneous definitions (exercises confirm this) can move from one quality to another. For example, when one definition stands in front of another, which is the component with the subject of a single phrase: a long railway train.

Special variation of definitions

Special species include definitions that link explanatory relationships. In this case, it is easy to determine where homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions. The test for their difference is to substitute unions "namely" and "that is."

• It is completely different, the time has come (Other, namely interesting).
• The play received a new, original sound (new, that is, original).

There is a comma between homogeneous definitions associated with explanatory conditions.

Note

As rules show, they may have exceptions or notes, which confirms the study of the topic "Uniform and inhomogeneous definitions". The lesson in the 11th grade introduces students with a note on this topic. As homogeneous and inhomogeneous definitions, it is proposed to change the meaning of the proposal, for example:

• New, yellow taxis appeared on the streets of the city (the former was not yellow).
• New yellow taxis appeared on the streets of the city (the number of yellow taxis).

In the first example, the emphasis on the fact that taxi in the city became yellow. In the second that new cars appeared among the yellow taxis.

Two punctuation

Depending on which intonation is applied to the speaker, in some phrases, the definition following first can become uniform, but explanatory. For example:

• New proven methods led to the result (before that these methods were not).
• The result was led by new, proven methods (previous methods were not proven).

In the second example, you can substitute the unions "that is" and "namely", therefore the comma is put and the intonation changes.