In olden times, those two sentences would have been written as one, with the first clause subordinated: "Although the South Carolina primary... left Republicans... divided, both Bush and McCain... campaigned for his election.... " Or they could have remained as two sentences, with the second beginning however instead of with the voguism that said.
Complex sentence: A sentence that has one or more dependent clauses (subordinate clauses).
A so-called fourth-person category enables switch reference between main clauses and subordinate clauses with different subjects.
If, to Hadrian and to Yourcenar, their lives seemed crazy or dull or just plain obliterated, these magnificent Latinate constructions, with their main clauses and their subordinate clauses — that is, with distinctions, with judgment — say the opposite.
And then he read Mr. Herbert's "Seventh Angel," about a "black and nervous" angel named Shemkel, who gets to stay on "the squad" only because of the angels' consideration for the number 7. Then he recited Ms. Szymborska's "Joy of Writing," in which the poet chastises letters "up to no good" and "clauses so subordinate they'll never let her get away".
Search for repetitions, inserted clauses and subordinate fragments; eliminate these whenever possible.
In Experiment 1, participants read sentences containing a noun phrase coordination/clausal coordination ambiguity, while in Experiment 2 they read sentences containing a subordinate clause object/main clause subject ambiguity.
There are eight moods, of which four are used in independent clauses and four in subordinate clauses.
A very similar problem arises here, where we have a subordinate clause inside another subordinate clause.
It is only used if the subject of the subordinate clause and of the main clause are identical.
Each order corresponds generally to one of three main sentence types: the Independent order is used in main clauses, the Conjunct order in subordinate clauses, and the Imperative order in commands.
