dependent clause

British  

noun

1. grammar another term for subordinate clause

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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.)

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dependent clause

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

A subordinate or dependent clause is one which makes a statement depending upon or modifying some word in the principal clause.

From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

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 Henry Jenner

If a dependent clause, or an introductory phrase requiring to be set off by a comma, precedes the second independent clause, no comma is needed after the conjunction.

From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James