| 单词 | subordinate clause |
| 释义 | subordinate clause (once / 78274 pages) n WORD FAMILY subordinate clause: subordinate clauses USAGE EXAMPLESSarah Palin once gave an off-the-cuff response in the form of a complete sentence containing three relevant subordinate clauses. Washington Post(Mar 02, 2016) The devil often lies in those darn subordinate clauses. Washington Post(Jan 15, 2016) Not as egregious as the sentence Brophy singled out, granted, but something does go syntactically awry once we get into the first subordinate clause. The New Yorker(Nov 04, 2015) n 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|Hypo|Hyper dependent clause restrictive clause a subordinate clause that limits or restricts the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies descriptive clause, nonrestrictive clausea subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies clause (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence |
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