0 in grammar, a clause that cannot form a separate sentence but can form a sentence when joined with a main clause
1 a clause in a sentence that cannot form a separate sentence but can be joined to a main clause to form a sentence
After a verb of wishing, the subjunctive is regularly used in the dependent clause.
He does not giggle nor prattle, nor launch into a long and involved explanation with halting, dependent clauses.
In Latin the law of tense sequence is obeyed with considerable regularity, especially when an indicative in the principal clause is followed by a subjunctive in the dependent clause.
The subjunctive is used in a dependent clause to express the purpose of the action in the principal clause.
The tense of the verb in a dependent clause varies with the tense of the principal verb: as, I know he will come.
They seem to reveal a basic underlying difficulty in generating a complex sentence with a dependent clause.
Since a dependent clause can not stand on its own as a sentence, complex sentences must also have at least one independent clause.
Conjunctive adverbs also do not exclude the possibility of having a dependent clause making a compound-complex sentence.
