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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

subordinate clauses

Hi, hope you guys can help....I work in primary school and we were looking at subordinate clauses. One of the kids asked whether, if we replaced the conjunction with a semi-colon it would still be a main clause and subordinate clause or two equal clause.
He shut the window as night fell OR As night fell, he shut the window becomes,
He shut the window: night fell OR Night fell; he shut the window.
Or does this only work with co-ordinating conjuctions which connect main clauses anyway?
  

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Anonymous if we replaced the conjunction with a semi-colon it would still be a main clause and subordinate clause or two equal clause A semi-colon separates parallel statements; it is used to separate independent coordinate clauses, so it cannot be used with subordinated clauses.

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  • Anonymous if we replaced the conjunction with a semi-colon it would still be a main clause and subordinate clause or two equal clause A semi-colon separates parallel statements; it is used to separate independent coordinate clauses, so it cannot be used with subordinated clauses.
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Anonymousif we replaced the conjunction with a semi-colon it would still be a main clause and subordinate clause or two equal clause
A semi-colon separates parallel statements; it is used to separate independent coordinate clauses, so it cannot be used with subordinated clauses.
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