subordinate clause

What does subordinate clause mean?

subordinate clause means "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".

What is another word for subordinate clause?

Close synonyms include dependent clause. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subordinate clause a common word?

subordinate clause is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for subordinate clause come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.