Subordination (linguistics)

In connection with the combination of two sentences or partial sentences (English clauses ) a distinction is made subordinate clauses ( subordinate phrases) and main clauses ( subordinating phrases); the subordinate ( "child" ) set depends so by subordinating ( " parent " ) set. A distinction

  • Relative clauses, also called attribute sets:

" The car that shines in the sun is red. "

  • Adverbialsätze that have an adverbial function:

" What he also started, he was always interrupted. "

  • Komplementsätze acting as a subject or object of the parent record:

" Paula knew that time was running out. " "Who solved the riddle guessed it often. "

Independent clause Adverbial clause Converb
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