You can tell them apart by checking whether the conjunction alone or the entire clause it contains can be moved in the sentence. To test your understanding of the concepts discussed on this page, begin with the link below for an example practice exercise:.
For a bit more of a challenge, analyze the following sentence from Robinson Crusoe for subordinators. Although a dependent clause contains a subject and a verb, its meaning is incomplete. A dependent clause begins with a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun and implies a question or a need for additional information:. Dependent clauses fall into one of three categories: adverb clauses, adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
However, each fulfills a function consistent with its namesake. In other words, an adverb clause answers the question Where? Similarly, an adjective clause, or relative clause, modifies a noun or pronoun. Finally, a noun clause can act in any role in a sentence that a noun can: subject, subject complement, direct object, or object of a preposition. A phrase is a group of words that does not have a subject-verb combination.
The types of phrases include noun phrases, infinitive phrases, gerund phrases, prepositional phrases, participle phrases past and present , modifying adverbial phrases, and appositive phrases. An infinitive phrase contains an infinitive, its objects, and its modifiers.
Infinitives are the most versatile type of verbals, words made from verbs that function as other parts of speech. Infinitive phrases can function as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.
For a more in depth explanation of infinitives and infinitive phrases, we recommend that you check out our two-part infinitives lesson. Subordination involves identifying one idea as less important than another. Coordination and Subordination allow writers to make connections between ideas, emphasize certain ideas as more important than others, and create transitions between different ideas.
Coordination allows a writer to give equal weight to the two ideas that are being combined, and subordination enables a writer to emphasize one idea over the other. They cannot be used as subordinators. In spite of I was very young, I still got the job. Wrong In spite of my youth, I still got the job. Right Although I was very young, I still got the job. Before, After , and Until can be used as either prepositions or subordinators. Do not go outside after it is dark.
Do not go outside after dark. I worked until this evening. I worked until my replacement showed up. For as a coordinating conjunction. I cannot tell a lie, for that would be dishonest. He lived in New Jersey for five years.
He fixed the TV for his daughter. For to indicate intended recipient. I have been in Toledo since last Tuesday.
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