单词 main clause 释义 BETA

Examples ofmain clause

Dictionary> Examples ofmain clausemain clauseisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help!Add a definitionThe indicative is indifferent to the realis/irrealis distinction, with irrealis being suggested only by the semantics of themain-clauseverb.From theCambridge English CorpusThese data are not instances of parenthetical insertions, as there was no audible pause before or after themainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusThis is because of a structural relationship that exists between the embedded clause and themainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusA notable property of such relative clauses is that they resemble amainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusUtterances with a relative clause but without a completedmainclausewere coded in this category.From theCambridge English CorpusSyntactically, they belong to the same tree structure, but they do not have semantic effects on the proposition expressed by themainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusTogether with their arguments, they express a distinct proposition (a subordinate clause) which functions as a modifier of the proposition denoted by themainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusThe next fragment illustrates the canonical word order in which a subordinate clause precedes themainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusFor every item of this test, participants were given themainclauseand the beginning of the subordinate clause of a conditional sentence.From theCambridge English CorpusConditional sentences consist of two clauses: an if-clause and amainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusThemainclauseconsists of a modal, the past tense, the perfect aspect, and the past participle form.From theCambridge English CorpusAs in previous studies, children did make the relative clause refer to themainclausesubject in a sizeable proportion of their responses.From theCambridge English CorpusFirst, themainclauseprojects a lengthy narrative with a number of explanatory factors for the alleged victim's bruising.From theCambridge English CorpusThese are clauses marked by the infinitive particle to, in which the subject is the same as that of themainclause.From theCambridge English CorpusThis hypothesis predicts that comprehension is easier when the head noun has the same grammatical role in themainclauseand the embedded clause.From theCambridge English CorpusThe relative can contain information concerning the physical possibility of the event in themainclauseor can give an explanation for it.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, if one clause served as an argument of another, only themainclausewas analysed.From theCambridge English CorpusThe test sentences were read without a marked pause between themainclauseand the relative clause.From theCambridge English Corpus

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