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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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 whole sentence, composed of an independent and a dependent clause, we call a +Complex Sentence+.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd

If used as a single part of speech, it is called a subordinate, or dependent, clause.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

The day spoken of is identified only by the dependent clause, which is therefore restrictive.

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