| 单词 | subordinate clause |
| 例句 | But otherwise the subjunctive is found only in subordinate clauses, generally with mandative verbs and adjectives, which indicate that something is demanded or required: I insist that she be kept in the loop. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Sarah Palin once gave an off-the-cuff response in the form of a complete sentence containing three relevant subordinate clauses. Style Invitational: B all you can B — a neologism contest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z One way Mr. Chafets accentuates the positive is through casual use of the toxic subordinate clause. Books of The Times: Looking at Limbaugh in Zev Chafets?s ?Army of One? 2010-05-23T21:50:00Z It was full of the musical equivalents of parentheses, commas, subordinate clauses and indirection: rising and falling, breathing in and out, before coming to the resolution of the final period. Joshua Bell Plays Mostly Mozart 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z His sentences tend to be short and direct, uncomplicated by fancy phrasing or subordinate clauses. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z The main clause expresses the main idea of the sentence, and the subordinate clause expresses the less important idea. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z I still see those branching sentence diagrams in my head when I am constructing subordinate clauses. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A subordinate clause to these statements, drawn from Pages 9 and 10 of the Mueller report, would help illuminate the troubling reasons Mueller postulated for his findings of insufficient evidence: Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A picture-perfect example of ‘gender discrimination’ in the media 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z “One yearns for a subordinate clause, a compound-complex sentence being too much to hope for,” he observed. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, writer of Nate the Great books for young readers, dies at 90 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2002, and she considered her translation — which mirrored Sebald’s labyrinthine German sentences, peppered with subordinate clauses — among her finest achievements, her son said. Anthea Bell, deft translator of Asterix comics and literary classics, dies at 82 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Like a main clause, a subordinate clause has a subject and verb; however, unlike a main clause, it cannot stand alone as a sentence. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Second, their sentences take on a higher number of subordinate clauses and qualifying phrases — “over the last several years,” “in general,” “in effect,” “what people are telling me,” and so on. How Donald Trump’s language works for him 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Revisions pursued through six or seven drafts allowed for the chance to find the right word, to control the balance of a subordinate clause, to replace the adjective with a noun. Old Masters at the Top of Their Game 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “But” goes with “he was most at home …”; it is not part of the parenthetical subordinate clause and so should not be within the dashes. Bright Passages 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z More will undoubtedly leave, not pacified by six words in a subordinate clause. What Affirming Same-Sex Marriage Means for the Presbyterian Church 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A subordinate clause punctuated as a sentence is a type of sentence fragment. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “He was using incredibly long sentences, filled with tons of subordinate clauses, and we worked together on writing in a more natural style of English,” Mr. McNeill recalled. Political Tensions Certain to Test Spain’s New King 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Also, the long subordinate clause and lack of punctuation make this hard to read. Bright Passages 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Tweets also leave no room for troublesome long subordinate clauses. The revival of Latin: Resurrexit vere 2013-07-25T14:59:45Z To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; - followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The subordinate clauses in the following sentences are underlined. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z An indirect quotation is usually a subordinate clause depending on a word of thinking, saying, telling, or the like. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The studio interview, by contrast, is rigidly controlled lest a stray subordinate clause meanders in trailing tedious detail. The soundbite has become a nibble 2011-08-21T18:00:03Z Or the subordinate clauses might be replaced by phrases: Owing to the disappearance of the early records of the city, the story of its first years can no longer be reconstructed. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Note the number of subordinate clauses within the programme saying something like 'subject to available resources'. Irish finance department restructuring could be a disaster 2011-03-11T10:46:00Z As the show has explained, the main challenge for Watson’s designers was to make it understand language, with all the subordinate clauses, puns and oblique references that we take for granted. City Room: Why Watson Will Beat Humans on 'Jeopardy!' 2011-02-16T19:57:27Z A phrase is also a dependent part of a sentence, but it differs from a subordinate clause in that it contains no subject or predicate. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z How could a predicate become associated with its subject, or a principal clause with its subordinate clause, if they were in separate consciousnesses, and how could the conclusion be drawn from them? Naturalism And Religion She brought out the subordinate clause with some confusion, for the keeping of "a girl" was an ambition to which it was not quite easy to aspire. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Since a subordinate clause does not express a complete thought, it cannot stand alone, but must be joined to a main clause to form a sentence. c. The Century Handbook of Writing Trouble is sometimes found in choosing the right forms of the verb to be used in subordinate clauses. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Both phrases and subordinate clauses are used as parts of speech, as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Now, as before, bracket the subordinate clauses thus:— 1. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight If subordinate clauses precede principal clauses in one sentence, they shall in the other; if they follow in one, they shall follow in the other. English: Composition and Literature Do not place the important idea of a sentence in a subordinate clause or phrase. The Century Handbook of Writing Note that when the statement in the subordinate clause is of universal application the present tense is always used whatever the tense of the principal verb. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses A complex sentence contains one principal clause and one or more subordinate clauses. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z There is one subordinate clause, introduced by ut, telling us the object of his request. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight The subdual of parts is accomplished by reducing to subordinate clauses, to phrases, to words, some of the ideas which in a child’s talk would be expressed in sentences. English: Composition and Literature Do not put the principal statement of a sentence in a subordinate clause or phrase. The Century Handbook of Writing How are should and would used in subordinate clauses, in indirect discourse? Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses A subordinate clause is used as a part of speech. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Then return to the sentence as a whole, and group round its Subject, Predicate, and Object the various subordinate clauses which belong to each. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight A subordinate clause may be needed if the thought is of great importance. English: Composition and Literature In the following sentences the important idea is buried in a subordinate clause or phrase. The Century Handbook of Writing What common error occurs in the use of cases in subordinate clauses? Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses It consists in writing a subordinate clause or a phrase as a sentence; as, 1. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Help through Analysis.—Very often analysis will help you to find out the proper relation of the subordinate clauses to the three parts of the Principal Sentence. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Just as surely as Kipling is right in putting the reasons into two sharp, independent sentences, is Irving right when he puts the reason in the following sentence into a subordinate clause. English: Composition and Literature Phrases or subordinate clauses, if used alone, carry only an incomplete meaning. The Century Handbook of Writing What is the rule for tense in subordinate clauses? Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Tell which pronouns ask questions; which are used as adjectives; which are used to connect subordinate clauses to the word for which they stand. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Thus in Demonstrations III and IV notice how the subordinate clauses are for the most part enclosed in commas. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight And other important matters,—thus again was the weightiest part of the business relegated to a subordinate clause. The Critical Period of American History Discriminating writers place minor ideas in subordinate clauses, consign still less important ideas to participial or prepositional phrases, and omit trivial details altogether. The Century Handbook of Writing What happens when the statement in the subordinate clause is of universal application? Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Exercise 71—The Clause A subordinate clause, like a phrase, is a group of words used as a part of speech, the chief difference being that a clause must have a subject and a predicate. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Notice that the influence of inter extends over the whole of the subordinate clause. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Don't waste the main verb of the sentence on a minor action while expressing the principal action in a subordinate clause. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing Note.—The student should distinguish clearly between a subordinate clause and a main clause. The Century Handbook of Writing But I deal with them in the simplest possible fashion, following the guidance of these significant little words which introduce the subordinate clauses. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The independent part of the sentence is called a principal clause, and the dependent part is called a subordinate clause. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The commas in the passage will often help you to the beginning and end of a subordinate clause. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Observe the lower pitch of the subordinate clauses in the first four lines, and the higher pitch in the last two lines which project the leading thought. The Ontario High School Reader Here omit "when," and we at once substitute a parenthetical statement for what is really a subordinate clause. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition If they are subordinate clauses, determine whether they are used as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. Practical Grammar and Composition Students who do not possess it or who have not learned the difference between sentences, subordinate clauses, and phrases frequently make the mistake of setting off too much or too little for one sentence. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Translation.—This sentence is apparently not quite so simple, but if you carefully bracket the subordinate clauses you will see that the only principal verb is animadverti, with subject ego and object columellam. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight It kept the attention on the strain, because the verb in a subordinate clause was held back, and not revealed till we had come to the 246 end of the clause. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 One of the most prolific sources of Corrupt Readings, is Transposition, or the arbitrary inversion of the order of the sacred words,—generally in the subordinate clauses of a sentence. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Complex; a sentence consisting of one principal clause and one or more subordinate clauses; as, The man that I saw is tall. Practical Grammar and Composition A comma is used to set off interposed words, phrases and subordinate clauses not restrictive; as, Good deeds are never lost, though sometimes forgotten. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference By bringing his old knowledge to bear on such a sentence as "The men who brought it returned at once"; the pupil may be asked first to apperceive the subordinate clause, who brought it. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education A topic introduced in a subordinate clause may later be raised to more importance without abruptness, for hearers are already familiar with it. Public Speaking Even where the context does not contain a Future tense in the main clause, Future time is often expressed in the subordinate clauses by the Present and Imperfect Subjunctive. New Latin Grammar What is the difference between a principal clause and a subordinate clause? Practical Grammar and Composition Hence the term clause may refer to the main division of the complex sentence, or it may be applied to the others,—the dependent or subordinate clauses. An English Grammar Next, he may be called upon to analyse the subordinate clause. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education The complex sentence contains one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause. Public Speaking When there are several subordinate clauses in one Period, the Latin so arranges them as to avoid a succession of verbs. New Latin Grammar Sequence of Tenses.+—It is, in general, true that the tense of a subordinate clause changes when the tense of the main verb changes. Composition-Rhetoric This leaves room for any number of subordinate clauses in a compound sentence: the requirement is simply that it have at least two independent clauses. An English Grammar French officials are extraordinarily punctilious over the details of their work, and it takes them a long time to organize a system which is a masterpiece of safeguards and regulations and subordinate clauses. The Soul of the War "The foot of the mountain stopped his course," is a subordinate clause and simple member, whose principal parts are—the subject foot, the verb stopped, and the object course. The Grammar of English Grammars The Ablative Absolute is generally used in Latin where in English we employ subordinate clauses. New Latin Grammar The verb in the main clause and the verb in the subordinate clause are not necessarily in the same tense. Composition-Rhetoric The division into members will be easier, for the coördinate independent statements are readily taken apart with the subordinate clauses attached, if there are any. An English Grammar The blood rushed to Ralph's forehead as he looked over the man's arm and read: "Society Leader Gets Decree," and beneath it the subordinate clause: "Says Husband Too Absorbed In Business To Make Home Happy." The Custom of the Country Can we regard it as the original history, when the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is dismissed in a subordinate clause, as is done in xix. Prolegomena Sometimes a subordinate clause is such only in its external form, and in sense is principal. New Latin Grammar In general, the principle may be laid down that in a complex sentence the tense for both principal and subordinate clauses is that which the sense requires. Composition-Rhetoric The name Prolepsis is also applied to the introduction of a noun or pronoun as object of the main clause where we should expect it to stand as subject of a subordinate clause. New Latin Grammar The different types of subordinate clauses will be discussed later. Composition-Rhetoric The genuine test for the subordinate clause is the one already given in connection with the study of the subordinate conjunction. Composition-Rhetoric Here the Participle is often equivalent to a subordinate clause. New Latin Grammar Subordinate Conjunctions and Complex Sentences.+—A subordinate conjunction is used to join a subordinate clause to a principal clause, thus forming a complex sentence. Composition-Rhetoric They introduce subordinate clauses only; these clauses are called relative clauses, and since they modify substantives, are also called adjective clauses. Composition-Rhetoric Note that the subordinate clauses in the above examples are substantive clauses. Composition-Rhetoric Too many adjectives or participles or subordinate clauses will render the meaning obscure. Composition-Rhetoric |
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