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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subordinate clause is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBORDINATE CLAUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dependent clause

In linguistics, a dependent clause is a clause that augments an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. Dependent clauses either modify the independent clause of a sentence or serve as a component of it. Some grammarians use the term subordinate clause as a synonym for dependent clause. Others use subordinate clause to refer only to adverbial dependent clauses. The different types of dependent clauses include noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

suboral
suborbicular
suborbital
suborder
subordinal
subordinancy
subordinaries
subordinary
subordinate
subordinated debt
subordinately
subordinateness
subordinating conjunction
subordination
subordinationism
subordinationist
subordinative
subordinator
suborganisation
suborganization

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

acceleration clause
applause
arbitration clause
because
clause
dependent clause
escalation clause
escape clause
exclusion clause
final clause
grandfather clause
independent clause
main clause
noun clause
opt-out clause
penalty clause
relative clause
restrictive relative clause
saving clause
sub-clause
sunset clause

Synonyms and antonyms of subordinate clause in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «subordinate clause» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

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The translations of subordinate clause from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subordinate clause» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

从句
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oración subordinada
570 millions of speakers

English

subordinate clause
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधीनस्थ खंड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جملة ثانوية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

придаточное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oração subordinada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধস্তন অনুচ্ছেদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

subordonnée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Klausa subordinat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nebensatz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

従属節
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

종속절
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Subordinate clause
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khoản cấp dưới
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துணைப் பிரிவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अधीनस्थ खंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alt fıkra
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

proposizione subordinata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podrzędne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підрядне
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clauză subordonat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δευτερεύουσα πρόταση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bysin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bisats
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bisetningen
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subordinate clause

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBORDINATE CLAUSE»

Discover the use of subordinate clause in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subordinate clause and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Clause Combination in Chinese
The term "subordinate clause" defines a subclass of embedded clauses. While an embedded clause is a clause acting as a (head or non-head) constituent of a monocentric sentence (or a monocentric clause), a subordinate clause may be ...
Halvor Eifring, 1995
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A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
The next higher clause in the structure is called the matrix clause. Subordinate clauses often differ in their internal structure from main clauses. Some typical differences are illustrated in [1]: [ 1 ] MAIN CLAUSE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE i a.
Rodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, 2005
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An Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language
Subordination joins a subordinate clause to a main clause. A subordinate clause functions within the main clause as subject, object, complement or adverbial. It cannot be separated from the main clause, leaving the two clauses to stand alone ...
Howard Jackson, Peter Stockwell, 1996
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The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers: A Course Book ...
Clause 1 (subordinate) Clause 2 (independent) (43) a. [As he was rounding the corner], [John knocked over an elderly woman]. b. *As he was rounding the corner. c. John knocked over an elderly woman. Coordinate Sentences Two or more ...
Ron Cowan, 2008
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A French-English Grammar: A Contrastive Grammar on ...
2.221 Subordinate Clauses The verb in a French subordinate clause can appear in the future tense or in the conditional tense, but this is not possible in English. The allowable combinations of tenses for the verbs in the principal and the ...
Morris Salkoff, 1999
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Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar: A Guide for EFL ...
One way of making this point is to distinguish between a main (or superordinate) clause and a subordinate clause. You may be familiar with this terminology already. The basic idea is that the main clause is primary and contains the principal ...
Martin J. Endley, 2010
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Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and Pragmatics
As a determinative element, the CGCM underlines the relation between the subordinate clause and the complex sentence: – In type 1 tightly bound subordinate clauses with actancy function, the correlative marker is a simple pronoun (es, das) ...
Isabelle Bril, 2010
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All about Grammar
A subordinate clause is also called a dependent clause— it depends on the main clause to make sense. A subordinate clause expands on a principal clause; for example: Birds fly. to their nests to feed their young. The added clause has a ...
Rosemary Allen, 2007
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English Grammar: An Outline
This is why it is only prototypi- cally the case that a subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence: he is here obviously can. (Conversely, the process of putting two main clauses together in a compound sentence may affect the structure ...
Rodney Huddleston, 1988
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Conceptual Structures: Current Practices: Second ...
But, the propositional content of the performative utterance (for instance "this employee send me a letter") is processed as a subordinate clause (see next section). 5.2 Generating Verb Tenses for Complex Sentences We call a complex  ...
William M. Tepfenhart, Judith P. Dick, John F. Sowa, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBORDINATE CLAUSE»

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I Feel Like We Say "I Feel Like" All the Time
The verb "feel"—when used in this way we're talking about, e.g., "I feel like I'm not understanding this"—announces that a finite subordinate clause is coming ... «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
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In which I am reduced to endorsing the AP Stylebook
And it is required before subordinate clauses that begin with after, although, because, before, in addition to, until, and while. You can see that though journalism ... «Baltimore Sun, May 15»
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Literary discourse: Phrases, clauses and sentences [part two]
In a previous write-up, we started a discourse on PHRASES and CLAUSES as salient particles of a ... However, the subordinate clause cannot be on its own. «GhanaWeb, Apr 15»
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Fluent in Journalese
(The entire clause, not just the relative pronoun, is the object of “to punish.”) •••. (Both have ... “As if,” not “like,” to introduce a subordinate clause. •••. Only two ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
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That moment where you realize grammar has turned one little corner
Grammatically speaking, what's going on here is the rise of the “subordinate clause.” A subordinate clause isn't a sentence on its own. As the name implies, ... «Chron.com, Mar 15»
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Kendrick Lamar announces new album [Untitled] , due March 23
He replies with a subordinate clause. 5. I reload the link from the tweet and it suddenly works, without opening iTunes this time. Here's what I find: - Kendrick ... «Tiny Mix Tapes, Mar 15»
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Vanité des vanités: How to Write a Jude D. Russo Review
If you are writing a “master-level” JDR review, your first sentence should start with a subordinate clause. Extra points for starting with a quote with a subordinate ... «Harvard Crimson, Dec 14»
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Q&A with Steven Pinker, author of 'The Sense of Style'
You have a hard time perfecting the art of writing if you don't know what a subordinate clause is. But grammar is much closer to a science than a set of ... «Washington Post, Nov 14»
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Could you pass the SATs grammar test for 11-year-olds?
The new grammar and punctuation tests will 'require children to identify a subordinate clause, recognise adverbials and assess the use of verbs to mark ... «MadeForMums, Jul 14»
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The Small Stuff, Again
It improperly severs the subject of the sentence (the subordinate clause “because the bank will give you a mortgage”) from the predicate (“doesn't mean”). «New York Times, Jun 14»

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