hypotaxis
About 0.02 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
She said that an example of hypotaxis is: "Although he was sleepy, he stayed awake for the New Year."
Similar words
para-hypotaxis syntaxis subconjunction subordinator apposition subordinate clause inverse attraction hypozeuxis catataxis noun clause
Often followed by
and is in of with to was or
Word family
hypotaxes
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