For example, the locative marker can be used in a switch reference construction to indicate that the agent of the subordinate clause is the same as the object of the main clause.
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It is found at the edge of either a subordinate clause ( referring to the matrix clause ) or at the edge of a coordinate clause ( referring to the previous clause ).
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In the following example, the SOV order in the subordinate clause causes the various noun phrases to be separated from the verbs that introduce them, creating a relatively deep " nesting " structure:
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As a linguistic phenomenon found in both classic and current languages, prolepsis is described as the construction whereby the subject of a subordinate clause occurs by anticipation as an object in the main clause.
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A verb placed as the second element does not necessarily mean it is the second word, rather, it is the second article and a noun, a possessive pronoun, or even an entire subordinate clause.
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Nominal modifiers ( such as deictic demonstratives ( two proximal, one medial and one distal ) which must be introduced by either the subordinate clause marker " ge " or the topic marker " nge ".
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If you wanted to use a simpler sentence structure you could rewrite to not use a subordinate clause, but it then it would become unnecessarily wordy .-- talk ) 00 : 41, 15 January 2017 ( UTC)
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This usage is grammatically correct if, perhaps, stylistically inelegant in a subordinate clause with an adverbial function, e . g . " The engineer stopped the train, the reason being a report of track failure ahead ."
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More significant are minimal pairs in verbs, where a change of tones indicates a change in the tense, or a difference between the same tense used in a main clause and in a subordinate clause, for example:
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Compare this with " Jack built the house after he married ", where the conjunction " after " marks the subordinate clause " after he married ", but does not play the role of any noun within that clause.
