| 单词 | subordinate clause |
| 释义 | subordinate clause noun[C] languagespecializeduk/səˌbɔː.dɪ.nət ˈklɔːz/us/səˌbɔːr.dɪ.nət ˈklɑːz/ingrammar, aclausethat cannotformasentenceonitsown but can bejoinedto amainclausetoformasentence 从句，从属分句Synonym dependent clausespecialized Linguistics: grammatical terms
subordinate clause| American Dictionarysubordinate clause noun[C] us/səˈbɔr·dən·ət ˈklɔz/grammar adependentclause Examplesofsubordinate clausesubordinate clause Just three very short paragraphs later, comes (11b), virtually an identical sentence except that the verb of thesubordinateclauseis in the indicative. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, the verbs in thesubordinateclausewere considered relevant only if they were in one of the indicative or subjunctive preterit forms. From theCambridge English Corpus Together with their arguments, they express a distinct proposition (asubordinateclause) which functions as a modifier of the proposition denoted by the main clause. From theCambridge English Corpus The basic word order of the main and thesubordinateclauseremain intact. From theCambridge English Corpus For every item of this test, participants were given the main clause and the beginning of thesubordinateclauseof a conditional sentence. From theCambridge English Corpus The next fragment illustrates the canonical word order in which asubordinateclauseprecedes the main clause. From theCambridge English Corpus In every sentence, the verb in thesubordinateclausewas missing and participants had to complete the sentence by choosing from four different possibilities. From theCambridge English Corpus Considering only the declarative and interrogative cases, the following subvarieties ofsubordinateclauseconstructions can be captured straightforwardly. From theCambridge English Corpus One difference lies in the relative unimportance of intervening adverbials at the clause boundary and the categorial status of thesubordinateclausesubject. From theCambridge English Corpus The non-prototypical mood of the utterance reported by thesubordinateclauseis imposed by this verb. From theCambridge English Corpus However, one would expect object omissions never to occur in asubordinateclause. From theCambridge English Corpus It is this normal function that the particle has here with our adverbs, marking them as relative and thus automatically as introducing asubordinateclause. From theCambridge English Corpus In other words, the action of the verb in the matrix clause happened after the completion of the action in thesubordinateclause. From theCambridge English Corpus When the temporal present implies a habitual state of affairs, the present indicative is used in thesubordinateclause. From theCambridge English Corpus The three languages mentioned are very closely related and have the same adjective morphology andsubordinateclausesyntax. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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