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Subordinative   Listen
Subordinative

adjective
1.
Serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause.  Synonym: subordinating.






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... give coherence to a paragraph is conjunctions. They indicate the relations between sentences, and they point the direction of the new sentence. The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coordinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative. Each young writer has usually but one word, at the most two words, in his vocabulary to express each of these relations. He knows and, but, if, although, and therefore. Each person ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster



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