In our study of subordinate clauses, we have studied subordinate clauses used as adverbs and as nouns.
There may be a number of modifying words, phrases or subordinate clauses, but there is always a main clause which contains a simple subject and a simple predicate.
Subordinate clauses, like phrases, are used as parts of speech.
It includes also a chapter on the use of subordinate clauses as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs (pp.
Subordinate clauses+, like phrases, are used as +parts of speech+.
Discriminating writers place minor ideas in subordinate clauses, consign still less important ideas to participial or prepositional phrases, and omit trivial details altogether.
That, which, and who are often used carelessly to form a chain of subordinate clauses.
Phrases or subordinate clauses, if used alone, carry only an incomplete meaning.
Write three sentences in which the semicolon is used to separate similar phrases or subordinate clauses in a series.
A complex sentence contains one independent or principal clause and one or more dependent or subordinate clauses.
To separate clauses or phrases from each other in a series of similar phrases or subordinate clauses, when commas would not be sufficient to indicate clearly where each clause or phrase began and ended.
A compound sentence contains two or more independent or principal clauses, either with or without dependent or subordinate clauses.
Trouble is sometimes found in choosing the right forms of the verb to be used in subordinate clauses.
What is the rule for tense in subordinate clauses?
The Future and Future Perfect, which are lacking to the Latin Subjunctive, are supplied in subordinate clauses as follows:-- 1.
The meanings of the different tenses of the Subjunctive are so many and so varied, particularly in subordinate clauses, that no attempt can be made to give them here.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subordinate clauses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
