<span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clauses</span>) (grammar) A <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> that can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence and contains at least a subject and a verb...
independent <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> (plural independent <span class="searchmatch">clauses</span>) Synonym of <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>. grammar: <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> that can stand alone — see <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>...
adverbial <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> Wikipedia adverbial <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> (plural adverbial <span class="searchmatch">clauses</span>) (grammar) A subordinate <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> that functions like an adverb within a <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>. Synonym:...
<span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clauses</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">main</span> verb (plural <span class="searchmatch">main</span> verbs) (grammar) In a <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>, the verb with the highest semantic content, contrasted with auxiliary verb. (grammar) In a sentence...
coordinate <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> (plural coordinate <span class="searchmatch">clauses</span>) Synonym of <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>. grammar: <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> that can stand alone syntactically...
hoved (“head, <span class="searchmatch">main</span>”) + sætning (“<span class="searchmatch">clause</span>”). Calque of German Hauptsatz. IPA(key): [ˈhoːð̩ˌsɛd̥neŋ] hovedsætning (grammar) <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> ledsætning, bisætning...
<span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> (for example, often like a subject or object, but not always). Hypernyms: subordinate <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>, dependent <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>, embedded <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> < <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> Coordinate...
relative clause; noun clause, nominal clause Coordinate terms: <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>, independent <span class="searchmatch">clause</span> Modern linguistics classifies the introductory words (which...
hevoka sereke f (plural hevokên sereke) <span class="searchmatch">main</span> <span class="searchmatch">clause</span>...