The means of combining clauses

According to the way in which parts of the composite sentence are joined

Together, two types can be singled out:

The means of
combining clauses:

Syndetic Asyndetic

Implies the use of conjunctions, relative Implies the connection of clauses

pronouns (who, which), relative adverbs without help of any connective
(where, how, when, why), phrases (as long words.
as, in order that while connecting clauses
of a composite sentence

Types of
connection

Coordination
is a type of syntactic relations which
implies grammatical equality of words
or clauses joined together
Subordination
implies inequality in the grammatical
status of words or clauses used
together: one of them is the head
(principal) while the other is
subordinated (adjunct) to the head.