Subordinating Conjunctions
Spanish: AQA A Level, topic 17.5.1
Conjunciones subordinantes - Subordinating Conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions join dependent subordinate conjunctions to main clauses.
Subordinated clauses
- You can recognize a dependent clause by the fact that it cannot stand alone.
- It has no meaning without the main clause.
- Subordinating conjunctions join one of these dependent clauses to the main clause.
Subordinating Conjunctions
- Some examples of subordinating conjunctions are:
- antes de que - before
- a menos que - unless
- hasta que - until
- puesto que - because, due to the fact that, since
Other Subordinating Conjunctions
- si - if
- cuando - when
- que - that
- para que - in order to
Examples
- Te dije que no fue posible porque no hubo tiempo.
- I told you that it wasn’t possible because there wasn’t time.
- Es imposible puesto que no hay suficiente dinero.
- It is impossible since there isn’t enough money.