subordinate clause

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English

Examples
  • If he lives long enough, Samuel will visit all the countries in the world.
    subordinate clause (adverbial clause of condition)

Noun

subordinate clause (plural subordinate clauses)

  1. (grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence but rather functions as either a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence, having been cued by any of various introductory words that subordinate it (complementize it).
    Synonyms: dependent clause, embedded clause
    Hypernym: clause
    Hyponyms: content clause, adverbial clause, relative clause; noun clause, nominal clause
    Coordinate terms: main clause, independent clause

Usage notes

Modern linguistics classifies the introductory words (which do the subordinating) as either subordinators (complementizers) or prepositions (depending on whether they carry inherent meaning), and most traditional grammars classified them all as subordinating conjunctions.

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