Usually means: Dependent parts of complex sentences.
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  1. subordinate clauses: Collins English Dictionary
  2. subordinate clauses: Vocabulary.com
  3. subordinate clauses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. subordinate clauses: Wiktionary
  5. Subordinate clauses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. subordinate clauses: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See subordinate_clause as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subordinate clause)

noun:  (grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence but rather functions as either a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence, having been cued by any of various introductory words that subordinate it (complementize it).
▸ Also see subordinate_clause


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