
Top 10 Subordinate Clauses Quotes
#1. A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction
besides unexpected interludes
has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end.
Yann Martel
#2. The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses,
Margaret Atwood
#3. And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.
Pearl S. Buck
#4. If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding.
Tom Hanks
#5. We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.
John Kador
#6. Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page,
are letters up to no good,
clutches of clauses so subordinate
they'll never let her get away.
From, The Joy of Writing, Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska
#7. [Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#8. You will curl your lip and want to spit. But I don't care. A man can carry something like this inside him for only so long. Then it's got to come out.
James Aura
#9. I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.
Richard Brancatisano
#10. I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse state in the country well before I even got into the Senate.
Marco Rubio
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