principal clause

American  

noun

1. the main clause.

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principal clause

If this clause were placed after its principal clause, would the comma be needed?

From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed

Should the time be important a subordinate when or while clause may precede the principal clause of the sentence; i.e.,

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

So, in every conditional sentence, the prot'asis, or condition, differs considerably from the apod'osis, or principal clause, even where both are expressed as facts.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Subordinate Conjunctions and Complex Sentences.+—A subordinate conjunction is used to join a subordinate clause to a principal clause, thus forming a complex sentence.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks

Department stores of all large cities are acquiring them is also a principal clause.

From Business English A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

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