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proposition subordonnée de temps

English translation: subordinate (or dependent) clause of time

22:19 Jun 19, 2018
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Education / Pedagogy / Brochure for university courses
French term or phrase: proposition subordonnée de temps
-Approfondir les connaissances grammaticales l’utilisation des particules, la proposition déterminante, la proposition subordonnée de temps, le potentiel, le passif, le factitif, les conjonctions de raison ou cause, les conjonctions adversatives, l'accumulatif.
Andrea McGibney
France
Local time: 06:16
English translation:subordinate (or dependent) clause of time
Explanation:
See https://sites.google.com/site/englishadvisoriesonline/subord... and many other examples on Google.
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Marco Solinas
Local time: 21:16
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4 +4subordinate (or dependent) clause of time
Marco Solinas
4time clause
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
subordinate (or dependent) clause of time


Explanation:
See https://sites.google.com/site/englishadvisoriesonline/subord... and many other examples on Google.

Marco Solinas
Local time: 21:16
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agree  Francois Boye
2 hrs
agree  Germaine
5 hrs
agree  B D Finch
9 hrs
agree  Clément Dhollande
17 hrs
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
time clause


Explanation:
This is not to dispute the answer above. This is just another perfectly acceptable formulation of the same idea.
http://wordcategory.blogspot.com/2012/10/subordinate-clauses...

http://www.davidcrystal.com/?id=2840
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Note added at 13 hrs (2018-06-20 11:41:31 GMT)
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I would just add that a time clause is by definition subordinate (when I got there, as soon as I saw him, after he arrived), and so "subordinate" in my opinion (!)is superfluous

katsy
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