Subordination is the use of a subordinator in joining two clauses to make a simple sentence.
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- Read the sentence “The sun is high, put on some sunscreen.” carefully. Which one is not the appropriate analysis of the previous sentence？ A: There are two independent clauses in the sentence. B: The correct version of the sentence should be“The sun is high, so put on some sunscreen. C: The two clauses constitute a run-on sentence that is called a fused sentence. D: A comma is not enough to connect two independent clauses within one sentence.
- A:In front of the the house stood two soldiers.This sentence use a prepositional phrase to open a sentence.
- Coordination joins two independent clauses of equal importance, whereas subordination joins two independent clauses or ideas in a way that makes one more important than the other.
- A compound-complex sentence consists of two or more independent clauses and A: one or more dependent clauses B: two or more dependent clauses
- To make our subordination logically realize the relationship between clauses we must carefully choose subordinators.