Sentence clause structure
A compound sentence is a complex sentence, which is formed from at least one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. If subordinate clauses are the main clause subordinated directly, it is a so-called hypotaxis, one calls the subordinate clause and subordinate clause ( the main clause ).
The main theorem is within the compound sentence that part or that set piece, which bears no shape features of dependency. One can classify the main clause, the subordinate clauses according to their phrase value of their introduction, the structure type, the position relative to the parent set or the degree of dependence.
Features of the subordinate clause:
- A subordinate clause (NS) alone can not make a statement or ask a question, it is in the main clause (HS) -dependent. ( The only exceptions are exclamations or questions that are not addressed to an addressee, who may have single subordinate clause form: " That I must pass something like that! " "Who made it up well "? )
- An NS may be initiated by special words: Conjunctions: that, because, since, if, if, if, as before, after, since, while, though, so, so, so, to, etc.; or relative pronoun who, where, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, where, who, what, what, what, what.
- NS, by the interrogative ( question words like who, what, where, why, etc.) have already started up, in contrast to HS- questions the finite verb at the end of a sentence (as well as relative pronouns and conjunctions introductory ).
- The NS is the HS from erfragbar, but not vice versa (eg: "We all know that he is innocent " - " What we all know ").