Question

Does the following sentence use​ coordination, subordination,​ both, or​ neither? Watterson has explained that Calvin was named after the​ sixteenth-century theologian John​ Calvin; likewise, Hobbes was named for another influential​ thinker, the​ seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes

Answer 1

its coordination

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Both

Step-by-step explanation:

There are different clauses in this extract, linked to each other in different ways:

"Watterson has explained that Calvin was named after the​ sixteenth-century theologian John​ Calvin;"

In this case, "that Calvin was named after the​ sixteenth-century theologian John​ Calvin" is a subordinate clause which is indeed subordinated to the main independent clause: "Watterson has explained", by the use of "that". Thus, we have an example of subordination.

Then, we have the semicolon ";" in between the first complex sentence and the second one, which is "[previous sentence] ; likewise, Hobbes was named for another influential​ thinker, the​ seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes." Here we have an example of coordination introduced by that semicolon.

IMPORTANT: "the seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes." Is only a nominal phrase, since it doesn't contain any verb.