a strategy in which the predicate in a complex sentence construction or a complex predicate construction - recruits the predicate construction in a simple predication, inflections and all. Example: The robins drank water and the juncos ate fennel seeds is an instance of a balanced coordinate clause construction: drank and ate are in the same form as in the simple predications The robins drank water and The juncos ate fennel seeds. (Sections 14.2, 15.2.3)