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When an introductory subordinate clause itself contains comma separated elements. An example is left as an exercise to the interested reader, but note that your introductory subordinate clause starting with "When" doesn't qualify.
Yes, the bracketed clauses are subordinate, but they are not objects. These are all catenative constructions. The verbs "beg", "command" and "encourage" are catenative verbs and the bracketed subordinate clauses are their catenative complements. In each case, the intervening NP is the syntactic object of the matrix verb, and the understood ...
In [1b] and [c], we have subordination (the underlined clause is the subordinate one). But which clause is subordinate and which principal is determined by the placement of the relative word when (and of the comma). So it's not necessarily the case that you first somehow decide which clause is subordinate, and then place the relative word ...
A few days back I asked a question about whether a present tense verb in a subordinate clause can be followed by a past tense verb in the main clause. A veteran grammarian (Andrew Leach) says yes, it is possible to have present tense in a subordinate clause and a past tense in a main clause. So by this logic one can say the sentences like:
2. Yes, there is a rule, but it requires you to recognize subordinate clauses and what other clauses they're subordinate to. The rule is that a referential pronoun may not both precede and command its antecedent (the noun phrase it refers to). Precede means 'occur prior to'; but command is more complex. Any two words in the same clause command ...
What you're talking about isn't called a "dependent clause"; it is called an "absolute phrase." An absolute phrase joins a participle with a noun in order to modify an object outside the phrase. It's appropriate to use an absolute phrase when you see fit, usually at the beginning or tail end of a sentence or clause.
1. In tradtional grammar "while" is a subordinating conjunction. But in your example the while-clause is shortened. You can shorten a clause by using a participle construction with drop of the subject if the subjects in subclause and main clause are the same: While you are in the classroom > While being in the classroom.
Indirect reported speech can use past tense. (the backshifting stuff) Tom told me that Kim had blue eyes. main clause past + suboridnate clause past sounds/looks more harmony. What about this: Assume that I am talking to someone: "Hey Tim. I had no idea that the 6th video of the tutorial is about English grammar.
Yes, the infinitival To write The Great American Novel is a non-finite subordinate clause functioning as subject of the sentence. So we have a main clause, which is the sentence as a whole and whose verb is "is", and one sub clause. Relative clause is the correct term -- much better than adjective clause. I should have pointed that out!
53 5. No, you can't use a subordinate clause as an object. Your sentences are both ungrammatical. I suggest you need "I don't know who that person is", or the rather odd "Who that person is, I don't know". – BillJ. Feb 22, 2019 at 14:21. Add a comment. 2 Answers.