21st Century Grammar Handbook


Subordinating conjunction



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Subordinating conjunction. Subordinating conjunctions link dependent and independent clauses in some distinctive way. The most commonly used subordinating conjunctions are “after,” although “as,” as if “because,” “before,” even though,”
“if,” in order that once “since,” so that “than,” that though “unless,”
“until,” “when,” where and “while.”
Subordination. Clauses or phrases that depend on a main clause and modify its meaning or add to it are called subordinate (or dependent. They are usually introduced by subordinating conjunctions or relative pronouns that indicate some relationship of time, location, causation, or the like When the mail carrier came,
the dog was there.”
Subordinate expressions cannot stand on their own, no matter how long or complex they are They must be joined to a main or independent clause so that their relationship to a main idea can be clear. One of the commonest errors is to leave elaborate subordinate clauses or phrases without an independent clause, creating an indecipherable sentence fragment. WRONG If the ball bounced fair and never
reached the out eld wall, which was covered in a protective mat made from a synthetic ber recently developed in the labs the university established to take advantage of commercial opportunities like this For all its length and piled up
verbs and nouns and more, the example is only a fragment, a dependent clause looking fora sentence to which it can be linked and thereby gain meaning. Be sure to check all long and complex clauses that begin with subordinating conjunctions or relative pronouns to make sure they are part of a full sentence, complete with independent clause.
Subordination is a particularly useful way to add emphasis to a point. Putting one idea in a dependent clause and another in a main clause can add considerable force to the unsubordinated statement. Of course, like any device of emphasis,

subordination can be overused, become tedious and overly complex, and fail to enliven or enforce your writing. In long stretches of sentences that use subordinating constructions, emphasis often comes by an abrupt switch to simple declarative sentences of the subject, verb, object type.
Suffix. Groups of letters attached to the ends of words or parts of words to make new meanings, new grammatical forms, or new nuances of meaning are called
“su xes”: “teach—teacher” “tender—tenderness”; “clear—clarity—clearing”;
“vision—visibility.”
Su xes may attach to the common demonstrative form or case of a word or to its
root, the smallest cluster of letters that still conveys the word’s fundamental meaning
(“clear” and “ciar-” as well as “vis-” in the examples. The roots that end with a
hyphen are those that don’t stand as words by themselves and must always have some ending attached to become independent words. From words or roots su xes can make nouns of various kinds and meanings, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. From the root “assum-,” for instance, come the noun assumption the verb assume and the adjective assumable Roots or words can form more than one noun, verb, or adjective with di erent su xes: Real can become the nouns reality or “realism,”
with quite different meanings.
The list below records the major su xes and the meanings they usually add to a word or root.

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