Subordinating conjunctions | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy - By Khan Academy
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| 00:0-1 | Hank grammarians . Today , let's start talking about subordinating | |
| 00:03 | conjunctions , words like although and after and because Because | |
| 00:08 | this is Ah , that's a pretty complicated topic because | |
| 00:11 | in order to understand subordinating conjunctions , you have to | |
| 00:14 | understand the difference between an independent and dependent clause . | |
| 00:18 | Because that's what subordinating conjunctions do . Is they that | |
| 00:22 | unite independent and dependent clauses , That's what Subordinating conjunctions | |
| 00:26 | dio . But what What is what is what are | |
| 00:29 | these ? You know what is an independent and independent | |
| 00:32 | clause ? Well , okay , So first of all | |
| 00:35 | , let's back up again . What is a clause | |
| 00:37 | ? Ah , clauses . Just a language chunk that | |
| 00:39 | has a subject and a verb . That's what a | |
| 00:42 | clause does . All sentences are clauses , but not | |
| 00:47 | all clauses are sentences . All right , back down | |
| 00:50 | . So all sentences are clauses , But not all | |
| 00:53 | clauses are sentences . It's possible to have something that | |
| 00:56 | has both the subject and verb that doesn't stand on | |
| 00:59 | its own . And that's a dependent clause would call | |
| 01:01 | that a sentence fragment . What a dependent clause does | |
| 01:06 | is provide extra information that isn't necessary to the understanding | |
| 01:11 | of the sentence , right . But an independent clause | |
| 01:15 | has to be able to stand on its own , | |
| 01:18 | so Let's take a look at the sentence here . | |
| 01:19 | Herbert performed his irresponsible experiments because he was curious . | |
| 01:24 | And this sentence is composed of two clauses in red | |
| 01:28 | . We've got this independent clause . Herbert performed his | |
| 01:30 | irresponsible experiments . And in green we have this dependent | |
| 01:35 | clause because he was curious . Now we know that | |
| 01:38 | because he was curious is the dependent clause because it | |
| 01:42 | explains mawr of why Herbert did what he did , | |
| 01:46 | right . It is explaining the reason for his performing | |
| 01:50 | irresponsible experiments . But because he was curious on its | |
| 01:55 | own doesn't work as a sentence . He was curious | |
| 01:58 | . Does that's a sentence , but because he was | |
| 02:01 | curious asks more questions than it answers because he was | |
| 02:05 | curious . What ? You know , if if a | |
| 02:08 | clause causes you to ask , Yeah , so what | |
| 02:12 | , then It's probably a dependent clause . Write that | |
| 02:15 | down . Put that in a doctrine . So ah | |
| 02:19 | , dependent clause should cause you to ask U s | |
| 02:21 | . So what ? Because the dependent clause leans against | |
| 02:25 | an independent clause . It's like a ladder laid up | |
| 02:28 | against the tree . The tree is still gonna be | |
| 02:29 | standing there , whether or not the latter is there | |
| 02:31 | or not . But the latter is useful because it | |
| 02:34 | allows you to get up further into the tree and | |
| 02:36 | explore its leaves . If that makes sense , it | |
| 02:38 | allows you to get further context and further understanding . | |
| 02:42 | But the tree could just as easily . It's still | |
| 02:44 | a tree without the ladder , right ? You don't | |
| 02:46 | have to have a ladder in order to be a | |
| 02:47 | tree . All right , so another thing about the | |
| 02:57 | difference between a coordinating and a subordinating conjunction is that | |
| 03:02 | coordinating conjunctions , Onley unite independent clauses with each other | |
| 03:07 | , which means any sentence that has a coordinating conjunction | |
| 03:10 | like but or anything else in Fanboys , which is | |
| 03:14 | for and nor but or yet so right , um | |
| 03:18 | can be separated into two sentences to separate sentences . | |
| 03:22 | Look at this . So , Jim , a three | |
| 03:23 | like toe wash the dishes , but beckon . He | |
| 03:26 | preferred to sweep the floor . Now these can each | |
| 03:28 | be their own sentences . Jim , if you like | |
| 03:30 | to wash the dishes beckon , he preferred to sweep | |
| 03:32 | the floor . We can combine these that we want | |
| 03:34 | Thio and we have , whereas this subordinating conjunctions sentence | |
| 03:41 | that begins with although cannot be separated into two sentences | |
| 03:47 | . Although she loves Sir Reginald , Lady Penelope hated | |
| 03:50 | his pranks . So Lady Penelope hated his pranks . | |
| 03:53 | That's a sentence . Although she loved Sir Reginald , | |
| 03:56 | that's not a sense . This is a dependent clause | |
| 03:59 | . So this could be split through . This cannot | |
| 04:03 | be split because although she loved Sir Reginald doesn't stand | |
| 04:07 | on its own . It just grants additional context and | |
| 04:10 | detail to the fact that Lady Penelope hated Sir Reginald | |
| 04:13 | pranks . So with that in mind , here are | |
| 04:17 | some of the most common subordinating conjunctions in English and | |
| 04:21 | some of these you might recognize as being adverbs or | |
| 04:25 | propositions in other contexts . But you can also use | |
| 04:28 | them to unite dependent and independent clauses . So here | |
| 04:32 | we go after , although as as if because before | |
| 04:40 | , even if even though if , if only like | |
| 04:45 | , rather than since that , though , unless until | |
| 04:51 | when ? Where whereas wherever weather , which and while | |
| 05:01 | all of these words have the power to unite independent | |
| 05:05 | and dependent clauses , you may notice some of them | |
| 05:08 | like after and before our propositions , they could be | |
| 05:12 | used . In many ways , English is complicated , | |
| 05:15 | but I am confident that you can figure this out | |
| 05:17 | because you can learn anything these air , some of | |
| 05:21 | the subordinating conjunctions of English David out |
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This video shows that subordinating conjunctions join two parts of complex sentencesââindependent clauses to dependent clauses.
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