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Meanings of subordinate clause in English
Portuguese
oração subordinada A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb.
Synonyms
Examples for "dependent clause"
Examples for "dependent clause"
1
If the sentence last quoted were inverted, a comma would be placed after the dependent clause.
2
The whole sentence, composed of an independent and a dependent clause, we call a +Complex Sentence+.
3
For a senator who has never met a dependent clause he didn't like, that may be a tall order.
4
Of a dependent clause.
5
The pupil will notice that, in some of these sentences, the dependent clause modifies the subject, and that, in others, it modifies the noun complement.
Usage of subordinate clause in English
1
Here omit "when," and we at once substitute a parenthetical statement for what is really a subordinate clause.
2
Which is the principal, and which the subordinate clause,-thatI am stone-cold ,asyou call it, or that you love me, as you call it?
3
If they are subordinate clauses, determine whether they are used as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.
4
When Abby started in on the ten-dollar words and subordinate clauses, there was going to be hell to pay.
5
Finally, I have occasionally altered the original syntax, usually by transposing subordinate clauses so that the meaning is more readily grasped.
6
It consists in a long string of subordinate clauses and parenthetical phrases - but there is no main clause and no periods.
7
They then proceed not to answer it in a speech which contains more subordinate clauses than a sentence of the late Cardinal Newman's.
8
(5) Determine the principal and the subordinate clauses.
9
But I deal with them in the simplest possible fashion, following the guidance of these significant little words which introduce the subordinate clauses.
10
It is a marvellously complex and animated series of clauses and subordinate clauses, yet all subservient to the benign tyranny of pure iambic pentameter.
11
This leaves room for any number of subordinate clauses in a compound sentence: the requirement is simply that it have at least two independent clauses.
12
The division into members will be easier, for the coördinate independent statements are readily taken apart with the subordinate clauses attached, if there are any.