This is a complex sentence, because it consists of an independent clause and a dependent clause.
A Dependent Clause is one used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun+.
You will notice that the lines standing for the subject and predicate of the independent clause are heavier than those of the dependent clause.
A man will be honored is the +Independent Clause;+ who is wise is the +Dependent Clause+.
A Dependent Clause is one used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.
This is a complex sentence because it consists of an independent clause and a dependent clause.
The whole sentence, composed of an independent and a dependent clause, we call a +Complex Sentence+.
But here again it is better to refer still to the Indicative or Potential mood whatsoever has any proper sign of such mood, even though it occur in a dependent clause.
When a sentence is introduced by a participial phrase or a dependent clause it is in part or wholly periodic.
While or any other subordinating conjunction introduces a dependent clause; a dependent clauseis not a sentence; it can never stand alone.
By connecting these two statements with the conjunction when, we have made of the clause, we are united, a dependent clause, it modifies the verb phrase shall win.
So the clause, when he was called, is a subordinate or dependent clause, and the conjunctions which connect this class of clauses to the main clause are called subordinate conjunctions.
A subordinate conjunction is one that connects a dependent clause to the principal clause.
So in these two sentences we have two different kinds of conjunctions, the conjunction and, which connects clauses of equal rank or order, and the conjunction when, which connects a dependent clause to the principal clause.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dependent clause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
