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10 and Information: Subordinate Clauses
OVERVIEW
• Adverbial clauses of: • Time
• Condition
• Contrast/concession • Cause
• Adjective clauses and adjective participle phrases
• Noun clauses and reporting verbs
Similar to coordinating conjunctions (such as and, but, and or) that con- join twoor more simple sentences into more complex compound construc- tions, subordinate clauses can conjoin two or more simple sentences into much more complex sentence units. For example, two simple sentences can be conjoined byvarious means and turned into a number of compound (see
chap. 3) or complex sentences:
Facial expressions are the most obvious emotional indicators. Some emotions are easier to express facially than others.
These two sentences can be conjoined by various means:
1. (a) Facial expressions are the most obvious emotional indicators, and/but some emotions are easier to express facially than others,
(b) Some emotions are easier to express facially than others, and facial ex- pressions are the most obvious emotional indicators.
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