Q.
I wonder how the noun clause and adjective clause and adverb clause can be called subordinate clause; inspite of the fact that the noun clause does not start with subordinate conjunction but starts with ING- clause or ED-clause or To infinitive clause or WH- clause or That-clause and all these beginning are not subordinate conjunctions.Moreover,adjective clause or relative clause does not start with subordinate conjunction to be called subordinate clause but it starts with relative pronouns or relative adverbs and the only clause that is really starts with subordinate conjunctions is the adverb clause that is logically can be called subordinate clause because it starts with subordinate conjunction but how we can call the noun clause and the adjective clause by subordinate clauses even if they do not start with subordinate conjunctions like the adverb clause?
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A.
It is not the word that starts a clause that makes it subordinate; it is the important of the clause within the sentence. The main clause carries the major sentence idea. The subordinate clause in some way supports something in the main clause. It can modify a noun or verb in the main clause, or it can serve as part of the the main clause, such as the subject or direct object.
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