单词 | subordinating conjunction |
释义 | subordinating conjunction (once / 3939771 pages) n WORD FAMILY subordinating conjunction: subordinating conjunctions USAGE EXAMPLESSubordinating conjunctions introduce a clause that is dependent on another. Cox, George, The International Auxiliary Languag...(2011) While or any other subordinating conjunction introduces a dependent clause; a dependent clause is not a sentence; it can never stand alone. Webster, W. F. (William Franklin), English: Composition and Literature(2010) 1n a conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause Syn|Hyper subordinate conjunction conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences 2n the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another Hyper conjunction the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction |
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