subordination

Examples

• All

• Our results in Figure 2 suggest these two phenomena are not actually linked and that there is no underlying relation between sentence length, subordination, and specific omissions of determiners and clitics.

  Academic text (2012)

• Daniel showed improvement in all of these except adjectival subordination.

  Academic text (2014)

• Is it a case of subordination and superordination where maybe philosophy stands above that discipline and tells it what to do?

• In fact, under certain conditions, sentences with more subordination (and hence longer) resulted in better comprehension.

  Academic text (2013)

• Language data from these children included measures of vocabulary, sentence length, subordination rates, and omissions of object clitic pronouns and definite determiners.

  Academic text (2012)

• In English grammar, subordination occurs when a dependent clause is linked to a main clause to provide additional information.

• For sentences to be complex, writers must understand the concept of subordination and how to effectively use dependent clauses.

• The teacher explained that subordination is essential for creating longer, more nuanced sentences in written English.

Synonyms

G

grammatical relation

vssubordination

• Specialized

6.2

The way words and phrases connect in a sentence, like subject or object

focuses on a dependent link where one element relies on another often a clause

Antonyms

I

independence

608 3.0

Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology