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

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 James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

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 Sewell, James Witt

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