ABSTRACT

Subordination is the process by which independent sentences become clauses dependent on the main clause, either asyndetically or by means of a subordinating conjunction. The subordinate clause will be a nominal or verbal sentence, and its form will vary according to the conjunction and the syntactic function of the clause. Formally there are three types of subordinate clauses: asyndetic clause, syndetic single clause, and syndetic correlative clause. The asyndetic circumstantial qualifying clause or phrase is one in which there is no linking particle between the main action or event of the main clause or phrase and the modifying circumstantial qualifying element. The combination of some prepositions and temporal adverbs be viewed as collocations, but they are not strictly compounds. Indeclinable adverb introducing an adverbial clause with a basic locative function, to which the numerous, extended meanings can be traced back. It often modifies a place or an act of movement mentioned in the main clause.