NOUN | a subordinate clause | subordinate clauses | |
SYNO | dependent clause | subordinate clause |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The only alternative would be using a negating subordinate clause and subjunctive in the main clause, which could be approximated in English as "there has not ever been an instance that I would have owed anything to anyone" (...), where negative pronouns (...) are replaced by indefinite pronouns (...) more in line with the English "ever, any" indefinite pronoun structures.
- ... "he would have led") is used for potential or hypothetical statements, wishes, and also in reported speech and certain types of subordinate clause.
- The gerund functions as the head of a subordinate clause (see the example above). There may be more than one gerund in one sentence.
- The two relations describe whether the verbal formative is part of a subordinate clause.
- The word order in an Irish subordinate clause is the same as in a main clause.
- A subordinate clause is produced by prefixing one of the two subordinating particles, /wə-/ "if, when, that" and /ʔəl/ "whenever, whatever," to the first word in a predicate and replacing its coordinate agent marker with a subordinate agent marker.
- In English, inferential clefts involve a subordinate clause that is embedded as a complement of the verb "to be", and the sentence begins with the subject "it".
- One way to identify a nominative absolute is to add a conjunction and a verb: one can often (though not always) create a subordinate clause out of a nominative absolute by adding a subordinating conjunction (such as "because" or "when") and a form of the verb "to be".
- In spoken Finnish, intent is often expressed with the short form infinitive if the subject is implicit or understood by context or more explicitly with a subordinate clause containing a conditional verb: "että minä muistaisin".
- As a linguistic phenomenon found in both classic and current languages, prolepsis is described as the construction whereby the subject of a subordinate clause occurs by anticipation as an object in the main clause.
- Almost all expressions where an infinitive may be used in Bulgarian are listed here; neverthess in all cases a subordinate clause is the more usual form.
- The official text of "Hatikvah" is relatively short; indeed it is a single complex sentence, consisting of two clauses: the subordinate clause posits the condition ("As long as… A soul still yearns… And… An eye still watches…"), while the independent clause specifies the outcome ("Our hope is not yet lost… To be a free nation in our land").
- The Present Indicative of the subordinate clause will be substituted with the subjunctive present; similarly, the present perfect will be substituted with its correspondent form, that of the past subjunctive and the Past perfect tense with the subjunctive past perfect.
- In subordinate clauses, the word order differs from that of main clauses.
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