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Compound sentences with the meaning of suddenness

You may compare:
Ой пішла я у яр за водою, аж там милий гуляє з другою
(Т. Шевченко).
Сьогодні вранці я спокійно сиджу вдома, коли
дзвонить твій секретар (Ю. Корнійчук).
Widely spread in modern Ukrainian is a subtype of such
sentences, where in the first part the verbs of physical perception
are used (дивитися, глянути, бачити, слухати, чути and
others), and the second part starts with the conjunctions аж,
коли, e.g.:
Дивлюсь — аж он передо мною неначе дива виринають
(Т. Шевченко).
Коли гляне — попереду старший їде (Т. Шевченко).
Similar connection is also rendered with the help of asyndetic
(безсполучниковий) connection. Compare: Бачить — ліс чорніє
(T. Шевченко).

3. Compound sentences with asyndetically joined clauses
(складносурядні речення без сполучників)

Basic means of expression of grammar relations between
parts of the compound sentence when they are not joined with the
help of conjunction is their adjoining and corresponding
intonation (зіставлення та відповідна інтонація). In comparison
with compound sentences joined by conjunctions, compound
sentences with the asyndetic type of connection have a more
independent character of their constituent parts.
With the help of asyndetic connection the compound
sentences are able to render the same type of relations as the
compound sentences joined by conjunctions, apart from the

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