Sentence examples for a subordinate clause from inspiring English sources

It begins with a subordinate clause.

He knew people would not march behind a subordinate clause.

Plenty of liberals these days in Egypt are inclined to reduce liberty to a subordinate clause.

A very similar problem arises here, where we have a subordinate clause inside another subordinate clause.

I have had awkward conversations at Yale, including one with writing tutors who assumed I didn't know what a subordinate clause was.

Propositional attitude, psychological state usually expressed by a verb that may take a subordinate clause beginning with "that" as its complement.

The Bush administration's legal memos opening the way to torture are a reminder of the intimate link between a bureaucrat's lawyerly subordinate clause and a man's near drowning.

Complementizer: A word like that, if or for that introduces an embedded (or subordinate) clause.

This subordinate clause functions as an adjunct or an argument-like adjunct (see Ernst 1996).

(It also drops an expletive in its fourth subordinate clause).

Remember, the four ways to fix run-on sentences are by adding end punctuation, using a comma and a coordinating conjunction, using a semi-colon, or by turning one of the independent clauses into a dependent clause with a subordinating conjunction.