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subordinating conjunction
noun
A word that appears at the beginning of a subordinate clause and establishes its nature.
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Hands up who knows what a subordinating conjunction is?
The BBC's Martha Kearney asked him whether the word "after" in the sentence "I went to the cinema after I'd eaten my dinner" served as a subordinating conjunction or a preposition.
Why is staring at a small screen for hours playing a game involving colourful dancing mushrooms (for example) a danger tantamount to downing shots of mercury, but staring for hours at a teacher trying to convey the difference between a subordinating conjunction and a preposition is perfectly harmless?
Previous work [38] has also pointed out that que and a are the two main sources of errors for POS taggers in Portuguese, since they are frequent words and can be used in different ways: que may be a pronoun, relative or not, and a subordinating conjunction; a may be an article, preposition, or pronoun.
A subordinating conjunction turns an independent clause into a dependent clause.
For instance, the following is a fused sentence: "George is awesome he eats ice cream".. Use a subordinating conjunction to fix fused sentences.
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In these cases, we can join two clauses with subordinating conjunctions like because, if, although or when.
Then you've an excuse to fire a few teachers, and rush in one of your pet sponsors to take over running subordinating conjunctions for a few years.
Most of them are doing their best to shoehorn in the stuff that actually interests and engages children, around the subordinating conjunctions and the rest of the crashingly dull curriculum.
When my daughter was an infant, my wife kept a detailed scrapbook recording her development and proudly noted that by 22 months, for instance, she had already mastered most of the subordinating conjunctions -- "when," "if," "because" and even "unless".
On top of that, my 11-year-old daughter will be sitting her year 6 Sats, which have been made more difficult this year (you thought subordinating conjunctions were bad, try "fronted adverbials").
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