Subordinate sentence
1subordinate — adj Subordinate, secondary, dependent, subject, tributary, collateral are comparable when they mean placed in or belonging to a class, rank, or status lower than the highest or the first in importance or power. Subordinate applies to a person or… …
2subordinate clause — subordinate clauses N COUNT A subordinate clause is a clause in a sentence which adds to or completes the information given in the main clause. It cannot usually stand alone as a sentence. Compare main clause. [TECHNICAL] …
3sentence — 1. Many users of this book will have been taught that a sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense, contains a main verb, and when written begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (or a question mark if it is a question… …
4subordinate — [sə bôrd′ n it; ] for v [., səbôr′də nāt΄] adj. [ME < ML subordinatus, pp. of subordinare < L sub , under + ordinare, to order: see ORDAIN] 1. inferior to or placed below another in rank, power, importance, etc.; secondary 2. under the… …
5Sentence diagram — X bar theory graph of the sentence He studies linguistics at the university. IP = Inflectional phrase. In pedagogy, a sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a natural language sentence. A sentence diagram… …
6subordinate clause — noun 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 • Syn: ↑dependent clause • Hypernyms: ↑clause • Hyponyms: ↑restrictive clause,… …
7Sentence (linguistics) — In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language, and often defined to indicate a grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that generally bear minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it.… …
8subordinate clause — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms subordinate clause : singular subordinate clause plural subordinate clauses linguistics a group of words that gives extra information about a sentence but cannot form a sentence by itself. For example, in the… …
9subordinate clause — sub,ordinate clause noun count LINGUISTICS a group of words that gives extra information about a sentence but cannot form a sentence by itself. For example, in the sentence Marla stayed at home because she was tired, because she was tired is a… …
10Subordinate clauses — ◊ GRAMMAR A subordinate clause is a clause which adds to or completes the information given in a main clause. Most subordinate clauses begin with a subordinating conjunction such as because , if , or that . Many subordinate clauses are adverbial… …
