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- noun grammar A
word that appears at thebeginning of asubordinate clause and establishes itsnature .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another
- noun a conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause
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