In linguistics, subordination is a complex syntactic construction in which one or more clauses are dependent on the main clause, such as The dog ran home after it had played with the ball. The italicized text is the subordinate clause.
Here is a list of subordinate conjunctions:| after although as because before even if even though if in order that | once provided that rather than since so that than that though unless | until when whenever where whereas wherever whether while why |
