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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Dependent clause?

Hi.

Are they dependent clauses?

If you had done it, it would have been better to have given me things that I asked for.

He gave the things that I asked for.
  

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The two underlined clauses are relative clauses. "If you had done it" in the first sentence is a dependent (subordinate) clause.

— Philip

  • The two underlined clauses are relative clauses.
  • "If you had done it" in the first sentence is a dependent (subordinate) clause.
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The two underlined clauses are relative clauses. "If you had done it" in the first sentence is a dependent (subordinate) clause.
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Anonymous
Are they dependent clauses?

If you had done it, it would have been better to have given me things that I asked for.

He gave the things that I asked for.

Yes, all relative clauses are dependent clauses, or subordinate clauses as I call them. Grammatical classification and terminology vary from country to co
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Yes, all relative clauses are dependent clauses, or subordinate clauses as I call them. Grammatical classification and terminology vary from country to country and even from grammarian to grammarian but I think everybody agrees on this.

Good point, CB. I just like to use the term 'relative clause' when the relative pronoun is in use.
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PhilipGood point, CB. I just like to use the term 'relative clause' when the relative pronoun is in use
Hi Philip

Actually, so do I!
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Not a problem. As you said, the terms vary from place to place (in English) and from language to language as well. I think you are versed in French, where the subordinate clause is the one that has to react to another clause in the sentence (is subordinate to the main clause, not just dependant on it for its existence), the have to being the need for the subjun
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