Syntagmatic relation between words or groups of words are called a syntactic connection. It means the connection between words or group of words in a string. Syntactic connection is realized in 3 types: subordination, coordination, predication.
Coordination – every notional element of the construction has the same function in a larger syntagm as the construction itself.
Subordination – is a type of syntactic connection where one element is a dominant and the second is subordinated to it.
It is realized in three types of syntactic relations between the head word and the subordinate one:
1. Agreement – a way of expressing a syntactic relationship which consists of making the subordinate word take a form similar to that of the head word (this book-these books)
2. Government – a way that implies a certain change of the subordinate word required by the head word, but not similar to the form of the head word itself. (to give him, her, at the table)
3. Adjoining – a type of syntactic relations when elements make a syntactic group without changing their forms (очень быстро, бесконечно долго)
4. Enclosure (замыкание) – some element of a phrase is, as it were, enclosed between two parts of another element, for example, by putting of a word between an article and the noun to which the article belongs.( The then government)
Predication – a specific type of syntactic connection characteristic of the relations between the subject and the predicate.
