dependent clause

British  

noun

1. grammar another term for subordinate clause

---

dependent clause Cultural  

1. A clause that does not stand alone as a sentence but depends on another clause to complete its meaning: “When I get my braces off, I will be very happy.” Dependent clauses are also known as subordinate clauses. (Compare independent clause.)

---

Example Sentences

Or you can combine the shorter sentences into a complex sentence with a dependent clause, as in the second example.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Perhaps knowing the difference between a main clause and a dependent clause doesn’t matter so much so long as you can intuit the difference.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2017

The ordinary dependent clause introduced by a conjunction has its verb in the indicative, unless the so-called subjunctive is required to express uncertainty or contingency, without reference to any preceding conjunction. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

Exercise 47 Write five sentences in which shall is used in an independent clause, and five in which shall is used in a dependent clause.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas

Subordinate other ideas by reducing each to a dependent clause, or a phrase, or a word.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland