Dependent Clause
A Dependent Clause is a linguistic clause that provides an independent clause with additional information.
- AKA: Subordinate/Embedded Clause.
- Context:
- It must have a Subordinator.
- It can be a Noun Clause.
- It can be a part of a Complex Sentence.
- It can be a Relative Clause.
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- Example(s):
- An Adverbial Dependent Clause: "I rushed home [when I heard about the accident]".
- A Nominal Dependent Clause: "I don't know [where he went]".
- A Subject Nominal Dependent Clause: "[That she can't lift her foot] concerns me".
- A Gerund Dependent Clause: "[Smoking cigarettes] can cause cancer.".
- An Interrogative Dependent Clause: "[When you did it] is not what I'm after.".
- A Relative Dependent Clause: "The book [that I read last night] was fascinating.".
- A Conditional Dependent Clause: "[If it rains tomorrow], we'll cancel the picnic.".
- A Content Dependent Clause: "I believe [that he is honest]".
- A Temporal Dependent Clause: "[Before the sun rises], we should start our journey.".
- An Resultative Dependent Clause: "I thought this video could bring [you to chuckling]", though an an unusual syntactic structure.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Simple Sentence, Non-Finite Clause.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dependent_clause Retrieved:2016-5-20.
- The meaning of dependent clause is a clause that provides an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. Dependent clauses either modify the independent clause of a sentence or serve as a component of it. Some grammarians use the term subordinate clause as a synonym for dependent clause. Others use subordinate clause to refer only to adverbial dependent clauses.
The different types of dependent clauses include noun clauses, relative (adjectival) clauses, and adverbial clauses.
- The meaning of dependent clause is a clause that provides an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. Dependent clauses either modify the independent clause of a sentence or serve as a component of it. Some grammarians use the term subordinate clause as a synonym for dependent clause. Others use subordinate clause to refer only to adverbial dependent clauses.
2009
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subordinate_clause#Noun
- 1. (grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, but functions as either a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence.
- If they live long enough in If they live long enough, Samuel and Milady will visit all the countries in the world.
- 1. (grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, but functions as either a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence.
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=subordinate%20clause
- S: (n) subordinate clause, dependent clause (a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb)