English subordinators (also known as subordinating conjunctions or complementizers) are words that mostly mark clauses as subordinate. The subordinators...

Coordinators differ from subordinators in that they connect elements of equal syntactic importance, while subordinators mark clauses as subordinate. Coordinators...

nouns, and subdivide conjunctions into subordinators and coordinators, and add the class of interjections. English also has a rich set of auxiliary verbs...

(preposition), a preposition used in English conditional sentences If (subordinator), a subordinator used for English subordinate interrogative clauses If.......

called the main clause (= matrix clause). Subordinate clauses are usually introduced by subordinators (= subordinate conjunctions) such as after, because,...

'whether'. The subordinator if (along with the conditional preposition if) existed in the earliest records of English. Examples of the subordinator follow: Ðonne...

 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...

include, along with subordinators, relative pronouns, and prepositions. This article deals only with subordinators. Key French subordinators include:: 17–18 ...

rather to those who would benefit him. Examples: Subordinating conjunctions, also called subordinators, are conjunctions that introduce content, relative...

interrogative words are singular.) In contrast, whether and if, like other subordinators, have no semantic value, and simply mark the clause as interrogative...