A subordinate is someone who is under you, for example in the a Army Private is subordinate to a General. Actually, I think this person is talking about English or literature... But I didn't know...
As a noun, a subordinate is an underling, someone who works for someone else. As a verb, it means to put something lower, to put something down, beneath something else.
Take the sentence, "I'm going home because I am tired." There are two clauses:"I'm going home" is an independent clause, because it would make sense to say it without the other clause."Because I am...
A clause is a group of words that have something that can work as a noun and something else that can work as the noun's verb. An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence. Ex....