Once identified as a member of a coordinating paradigm, a zero connector serves as a heuristic means of establishing the syntactic status of other particles: iam in an apodosis clause is not its connector, but the temporal adverb or asseverative particle in a clause which may be introduced either by et et sim. or by zero (see Section 1.3.6.1).

I came out of the army like dragging myself muddy out of a swamp. I wandered for a long time before going home to a remembered place I did not love.

I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags.

Yes. It’s an English pub called Ye Olde Meate Markete.[…]