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n. (plural of subordinate clause English)
Usage examples of "subordinate clauses".
But throughout these pleasurable Nazi funerals Matern unfortunately can't refrain -- and not just in subordinate clauses -- from making socialism triumph.
The entire paragraph is one sentence, built of prepositional phrases and subordinate clauses that lead to the introduction of Stephen Blackpool.
In English grammar, when a statement is in obvious contradiction to reality, the subjunctive mood requires a plural verb after a singular noun or pronoun in conditional clauses beginning with if, but also in subordinate clauses following verbs like wish.
William waded through flowery compliments and endless subordinate clauses till he got to the meat.
The opening sentence has 105 words - a maze of principal and subordinate clauses.
Finally, I have occasionally altered the original syntax, usually by transposing subordinate clauses so that the meaning is more readily grasped.
There are those who think violence and sadism interchangeable terms, and those who regard detective fiction as subliterary on no better grounds than that it does not habitually get itself jammed up with subordinate clauses, tricky punctuation and hypothetical subjunctives.
Sir Charles was becoming so lost in admiration of his own perspicacity that he had forgotten all his love of long, winding sentences and smooth - rolling subordinate clauses.