Sentence examples for a dependent clause from inspiring English sources

His style is declarative, with hardly a dependent clause.

"In most books," Mr. Gallagher said, "we're lucky to see a dependent clause about Brooklyn".

(Think only of the diametrically opposite results that derive from regarding the preamble to the Second Amendment as a controlling, or a dependent, clause).

My supervisor would periodically read a few of my abstracts, and I was sometimes corrected and told not to begin an abstract with a dependent clause.

Incidentally, the definition of a "subordinating conjunction", if you're wondering, is a conjunction (that is "a part of speech that connects words, sentences, phrases, or clauses") that "connects an independent clause and a dependent clause, and also introduces adverb clauses".

The preface, by Truss, includes a misplaced apostrophe ("printers' marks") and two misused semicolons: one that separates unpunctuated items in a list and one that sets off a dependent clause.

The bolded clause when I ate dinner in (A) is a hypotactic dependent clause, however its meaning contextualises the activity of feeling hungry with location in time.

Hawking might have generated enduring truths about the cosmos, but at least I could tame a wayward dependent clause or two.

A relative clause is a type of dependent clause; it needs the rest of the sentence to exist.

Know that relative clauses are a type of dependent clause.

In one poem a bird has "a cry like a cell phone," and a creek trickles "from dependent clause to interrogative".