Sentence examples for auxiliary clause from inspiring English sources

The phrase "auxiliary clause" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of grammar to refer to a dependent clause that provides additional information to the main clause in a sentence.
Example: "Although it was raining, we decided to go for a walk, where 'Although it was raining' is the auxiliary clause."
Alternatives: "dependent clause" or "subordinate clause".

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But Dickinson's preferred punctuation, while it leaves the possibility of the auxiliary clause intact, allows for other syntactical relations: "You may have met him — [if you haven't, you should know that] / His notice instant is".

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As I wrote earlier, the bottom line here is that companies building 'smart' services need to be thinking about privacy by design — at the very front and centre of the devices and services they are building — not tacking on auxiliary clauses to catch-all privacy policies which are designed to fly under users' radars anyway.

Postscript: The bottom line here is that companies building 'smart' services need to be thinking about privacy by design — at the very front and centre of the devices and services they are building — not tacking on auxiliary clauses to catch-all privacy policies which are designed to fly under the user's radar anyway.

(For example, an auxiliary verb in a relative clause cannot be "fronted;" though of course, theorists try to find deeper explanations for such constraints).

(8) Swedish omits the auxiliary hava 'have' in subordinate clauses (Huset jag sett… 'The house I [have] seen…').

The influence of African languages on the structure of Ebonics has been rather elusive, limited to some features such as copula omission, lack of subject-verb agreement, and absence of subject-auxiliary inversion in main clauses (illustrated below)—that this dialect shares with Caribbean English creoles and Gullah.

Infinitives constructed with auxiliary verbs were placed at the ends of clauses or sentences: Hīe ne dorston forth bī thære ēa siglan "They dared not sail beyond that river" (siglan is the infinitive); Iċ wolde thās lytlan bōc āwendan "I wanted to translate this little book" (āwendan is the infinitive).

For example, in the following clauses, both modal auxiliaries and adverbs are used in the same clause.

The formulation of the qualifications of both penny and word would "require not just some simple auxiliary nouns, simple adjectives or simple verbs but a whole batch of syntactically variegated subordinate clauses" (1979b, 88).

MODALITY can be realized in the form of modal auxiliaries, modal adverbs, or separate clauses.

Auxiliary lighting.

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