NOUN
- a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb
How To Use subordinate clause In A Sentence
- In the complex sentence, 'I'd like to go the beach, if it's warm enough', 'I'd like to go to the beach' is the main clause, and 'if it's warm enough' is the subordinate clause.
- A subordinate clause can not stand alone as a sentence– that is a sentence fragment.
- As a result, hypotaxis, or syntactic subordination, has a very different role in German, which clearly marks each subordinate clause not only with commas but also by shifting its verb to the very end, so that we can easily tell which clause is describing foreground and which background. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
- We therefore encourage elaborate, ambitious syntax, diversionary subordinate clauses, and other enriching linguistic techniques. LOVE YOU MADLY
- Can you have a pronoun in the main clause coming earlier than an antecedent in a subordinate clause?
- Judgments frequently consist of long paragraphs and convoluted sentences replete with subordinate clauses.
- In the complex sentence, 'I'd like to go the beach, if it's warm enough', 'I'd like to go to the beach' is the main clause, and 'if it's warm enough' is the subordinate clause.
- But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection (had blue eyes instead of has blue eyes) as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause.
- His prose is both sinuous and oracular, with a torrent of subordinate clauses cluttering up nearly every sentence; it's hard to read him without giving thanks for the arrival of Hemingway on the American literary scene.
- Even if the subordinate clauses open up a parenthesis that seems to last for ever, they do close, eventually, in a completed thought.
