0 in grammar, a clause that cannot form a sentence on its own but can be joined to a main clause to form a sentence
1 a dependent 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.
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