ABSTRACT
There are six different kinds of subordination according to their syntactic function. The first three are adverbial clause, relative clause and noun clause. The fourth is confined only to non-finite verbs occurring in fixed predications with a predictive main verb. The fifth and sixth have in common a subordination whose semantics is like that of the relative clause but which must be contextually distinguished from it. There are three kinds of subordinate clause according to their syntactic and semantic function. The first is the relative clause, the second is the noun clause, and the third is the adverbial clause. Noun clauses function as nominal structures within larger clauses. There are two kinds of noun clause, which are distinguished according to their subordinators. The first is the non-relative that-clause as nominal. The second kind of noun clauses is the wh-clauses (what, when, where, why and how).
