As is typical for many languages, full conditional sentences in conjunction " if ", while the consequence is contained in the main clause of the sentence.
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In the compound pluperfect, the helping verb is in the past imperfective form in a main clause but in the past perfective form in a dependent clause.
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In a free relative clause, a relative pronoun has no antecedent : the relative clause itself plays the role of the co-referring element in the main clause.
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In a sentence with " if ", unlike in English, the appropriate conditional tense is used in both the " if " clause and the main clause.
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Notice that in a relative clause, the form depends on the role of the pronoun in the relative clause, not that of its antecedent in the main clause.
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Compound sentences have two or more main clauses, and complex sentences have a main clause and one or more of the different types of subordinate clauses mentioned above.
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The conditional construction of the main clause is usually the simple conditional; sometimes the conditional progressive ( e . g . " would be waiting " ) is used.
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What does it tell us about the pluralness of the subjects of these sentences, if we conjugate the main clause in the singular but the tag question in the plural?
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A different transformation raised embedded subjects into main clause subject position in sentences such as " John seems to have gone "; and yet a third reordered arguments in the dative alternation.
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If the person in the main clause is different from that in the relative clause then this is indicated by with the person in the genitive and the verb is unmarked for person.
