If I write
My car can go pretty far and it gets good mileage
I have combined two independent clauses to create a compound sentence. I might just as easily write
My car can go pretty far. And it gets good mileage.
But if I write
Surprisingly, my car can go pretty far and it gets good mileage,
meaning that it is a surprise my car has both of these attributes, then the independence of each clause seems diminished, because one without the other is not surprising. In other words, I cannot write
Surprisingly, my car can go pretty far. And it gets good mileage.
Is there a way to describe this difference? Is there an overriding term for two or more independent clauses that actually do not mean the same thing when not joined?
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