subordinator has definitions from the field of grammar
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[ adjective ] (grammar) used of words such as relative pronouns and subordinating conjunctions that serve to subordinate sentence constituents

Examples

"`that' in `the house that we bought' is a subordinator"

Used in print

(Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)

Omission of a subordinator pronoun , however , does not result in an increase in stress on a prepositional adverb for which the subordinator pronoun would be object .

Omission of a subordinator pronoun , however , does not result in an increase in stress on a prepositional adverb for which the subordinator pronoun would be object .

Related terms

subordinating

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