subordinate clause Betydning & definition

Eksempler på subordinate clause

• Just three very short paragraphs later, comes (11b), virtually an identical sentence except that the verb of the subordinate clause is in the indicative.

• Similarly, the verbs in the subordinate clause were considered relevant only if they were in one of the indicative or subjunctive preterit forms.

• Together with their arguments, they express a distinct proposition (a subordinate clause) which functions as a modifier of the proposition denoted by the main clause.

• The basic word order of the main and the subordinate clause remain intact.

• For every item of this test, participants were given the main clause and the beginning of the subordinate clause of a conditional sentence.

• The next fragment illustrates the canonical word order in which a subordinate clause precedes the main clause.

• In every sentence, the verb in the subordinate clause was missing and participants had to complete the sentence by choosing from four different possibilities.

• Considering only the declarative and interrogative cases, the following subvarieties of subordinate clause constructions can be captured straightforwardly.