How To Use Main clause In A Sentence
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The main clause elements are subject, predicator, object, complement, and adjunct.
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Also, they commonly appear as subordinate elements in a sentence where the main clause indicates the speaker.
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The preposition of inclusion in the subtitle better represents the argument than does the conjunction in the main clause.
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However, when a subordinate clause follows a main clause this additional processing load does not occur.
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In such a sentence as That fierce lion who came here is dead, the class of lion, which we may call the animal class, would be referred to by concording prefixes no less than six times, with the demonstrative (that), the qualifying adjective, the noun itself, the relative pronoun, the subjective prefix to the verb of the relative clause, and the subjective prefix to the verb of the main clause (is dead).
Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
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The construction is symmetric neither with the main clause nor with the relative clause affirmatives.
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A semi-colon can be used to separate two main clauses that are related.
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However, when a subordinate clause follows a main clause this additional processing load does not occur.
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But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection (had blue eyes instead of has blue eyes) as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause.
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The sentence consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause.
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Consecutive adverbial subordinate sentences are those that express a consequence of what the main clause says.
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This happens when the wrong noun or pronoun begins the main clause.
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The sentence consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause.
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Subordinate clauses depend on the main clause for their meanings.
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In the sentence 'They often go to Italy because they love the food', 'They often go to Italy' is the main clause and 'because they love the food' is a subordinate clause.
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Pythagorās cum in geōmetriā quiddam novī invēnisset, Mūsīs bovem immolāsse dīcitur, _when Pythagoras had discovered something new in geometry, he is said to have sacrificed an ox to the Muses_.a. Note that the Indicative is much less frequent in such clauses than the Subjunctive, and is regularly confined to those cases where the main clause has tum, eō diē, eō annō, eō tempore or some similar correlative of the cum.
New Latin Grammar
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In the complex sentence, 'I'd like to go the beach, if it's warm enough', 'I'd like to go to the beach' is the main clause, and 'if it's warm enough' is the subordinate clause.
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In the complex sentence, 'I'd like to go the beach, if it's warm enough', 'I'd like to go to the beach' is the main clause, and 'if it's warm enough' is the subordinate clause.
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In the complex sentence, 'I'd like to go the beach, if it's warm enough', 'I'd like to go to the beach' is the main clause, and 'if it's warm enough' is the subordinate clause.
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To make my job easier, I marked only finite subordinate clauses, not infinitive clauses or nominalizations of various sorts, and not main clauses strung together by coordinators like ‘and’ and ‘but’.
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The pronoun is not the object of the main clause but the subject of the relative clause.
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This happens when the wrong noun or pronoun begins the main clause.
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In such a sentence as That fierce lion who came here is dead, the class of lion, which we may call the animal class, would be referred to by concording prefixes no less than six times, with the demonstrative (that), the qualifying adjective, the noun itself, the relative pronoun, the subjective prefix to the verb of the relative clause, and the subjective prefix to the verb of the main clause (is dead).
Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
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Here, the two main clauses are coordinated by but, the first main clause has a that clause within which is embedded another that clause, and the second main clause also contains a that clause.
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But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection (had blue eyes instead of has blue eyes) as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause.
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But the framers set a grammatical conundrum for us when they put the main clause in the passive voice: ‘shall not be infringed’.
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In the complex sentence, 'I'd like to go the beach, if it's warm enough', 'I'd like to go to the beach' is the main clause, and 'if it's warm enough' is the subordinate clause.
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The only solution is that both are uses of the plain form in a subjunctive main clause construction.
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Time adverbials introduced by until impose restrictions on the aspectual class of the main clause they combine with: they only combine with durative sentences.
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Can you have a pronoun in the main clause coming earlier than an antecedent in a subordinate clause?
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Sentences in which the grammatical role of a noun phrase is the same in the main clause and the relative clause seem to be easier to process.
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The pronoun is not the object of the main clause but the subject of the relative clause.
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