| 单词 | dependent clause |
| 释义 | dependent clause noun[C] languagespecializeduk/dɪˌpen.dənt ˈklɔːz/us/dɪˌpen.dənt ˈklɑːz/ingrammar, aclausethat cannotformaseparatesentencebut canformasentencewhenjoinedwith amainclause 从句，从属分句（不独立成句，但能够与主句组成一个完整句子）Synonym subordinate clause Linguistics: grammatical terms
dependent clause| American Dictionarydependent clause noun[C] us/dɪˈpen·dənt ˈklɔz/grammar a clause in asentencethat cannotformaseparatesentencebut can bejoinedto amainclause toformasentence Examplesofdependent clausedependent clause They seem to reveal a basic underlying difficulty in generating a complex sentence with adependentclause. From theCambridge English Corpus Since adependentclausecan not stand on its own as a sentence, complex sentences must also have at least one independent clause. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Conjunctive adverbs also do not exclude the possibility of having adependentclausemaking a compound-complex sentence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A sentence with two or more independent clauses plus (one or more) dependent clauses is referred to as a "compound-complex sentence". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the preceding chapter, 'subordinate clause' is used in the sense ofdependentclause, covering both the above subtypes (p. 545). From theCambridge English Corpus Thedependentclauseserves as the object of the main-clause verb know. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The genitive indicates possession, and is used after adjectives that can introduce adependentclause. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The future subjunctive screeve is used to express an unlikely event in the future and is usually used as adependentclause. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A relative clause is adependentclausethat modifies a noun or noun phrase in the independent clause. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In these cases, the subject of thedependentclausemay take a non-nominative form. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The word order changes also depending on whether the phrase is in a main clause or in certain kinds ofdependentclause. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Adependentclausewithout an independent clause is one example of an incomplete sentence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Adependentclausealso normally contains a subordinating conjunction (or in the case of relative clauses, a relative pronoun or phrase containing one). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thedependentclauseserves as the subject of the main clause. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The main verb in the protasis (dependentclause) is usually in the subjunctive or in the indicative mood. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.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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