Sentence examples for main clause and from inspiring English sources
It consists in a long string of subordinate clauses and parenthetical phrases - but there is no main clause and no periods.
The main clause and the utterance particles are conjoined by the functional category F, forming a conjunction structure.
Instead, the highest project is FP, a conjunction structure, and it is the head F that conjoins the main clause and the utterance particle.
I assume that the main clause and such anaphoric expressions are conjoined by F, as in 55, and are in YP and in XP, respectively.
According to some theorists, the forward-looking "indicatives" (those with a "will" in the main clause) belong with the "subjunctives" (those with a "would" in the main clause), and not with the other "indicatives".
The example in 2 contains the cataphoric demonstrative pronoun das 'that', occurring at the end of the first main clause and pointing forward to the content of the second main clause.
The authors first demonstrate that such clauses function as complete directives without any main clauses, and that recipients treat them as such, responding to the directive as soon as the insubordinate clause is produced.
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.
They are as follows: (i) semi-colon is not always used to separate the sentences; (ii) in most of the cases, no explicit discourse connectives are used to denote the discourse relations; (iii) no inflectional clues to differentiate free adjuncts and main clauses; and (iv) both subject and object can be dropped in Chinese.
A so-called fourth-person category enables switch reference between main clauses and subordinate clauses with different subjects.
She takes the structure of the original for her own, including the phrasing of the original's sentences (the same introductory and main clause structures) and the overall movement from sentence to sentence.
