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SUBORDINATE CLAUSESYou are here: syntax > period > subordinate_clauses Subordinate clauses are different kinds of clauses that depends on a supporting clause (or directly on the main clause). From a logical point of view, the subordinate clauses have an inferior importance respect to the supporting clause they usually are connected to with a conjunction. The speech, in fact, could exist without them because logically completed.
Example:
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Marco va a dormire perché è stanco.
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In this example the action of 'essere stanco' indicates the cause of the action of the supporting clause ('andare a dormire'), but is hierarchically less important, because theoretically the speech could exist without it.
In Italian there are 17 different kinds of subordinating clauses: - additional
- adversative
- causal
- comparative
- concessive
- conditional
- consecutive
- declarative
- exceptional
- exclusive
- final
- interrogative
- restrictive
- modal
- hypothetical
- relative
- temporal
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