English subordinators (also known as subordinating conjunctions or complementizers) are words that mostly mark clauses as subordinate. The subordinators...
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Coordinators differ from subordinators in that they connect elements of equal syntactic importance, while subordinators mark clauses as subordinate. Coordinators...
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nouns, and subdivide conjunctions into subordinators and coordinators, and add the class of interjections. English also has a rich set of auxiliary verbs...
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(preposition), a preposition used in English conditional sentences If (subordinator), a subordinator used for English subordinate interrogative clauses If.......
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called the main clause (= matrix clause). Subordinate clauses are usually introduced by subordinators (= subordinate conjunctions) such as after, because,...
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'whether'. The subordinator if (along with the conditional preposition if) existed in the earliest records of English. Examples of the subordinator follow: Ðonne...
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109–112. Øystein Heggelund (2007) Old English subordinate clauses and the shift to verb-medial order in English, English Studies, 88:3, 351–361 Crystal, David...
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include, along with subordinators, relative pronouns, and prepositions. This article deals only with subordinators. Key French subordinators include:: 17–18 ...
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Conjunction (grammar) (redirect from Subordinate conjunction)
rather to those who would benefit him. Examples: Subordinating conjunctions, also called subordinators, are conjunctions that introduce content, relative...
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interrogative words are singular.) In contrast, whether and if, like other subordinators, have no semantic value, and simply mark the clause as interrogative...
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