The present study, embarking from the micro-level point of view, employing the quantitative-plus-qualitative method, through a careful investigating on 90 Chinese senior high school students’compositions, aims to present the syntactic features in using of the subordinate clause by Chinese senior high school students.

Discrimination on the differences between attributive clause and appositive clause;

The author intends to classify the various types mentioned by the grammarians from the convenience of practical teaching and holds that it is much easier to teach from two points—— clauses and certain structures.

We did an experimental study about Chinese foreign language learners acquisition of clauses from the perspective of pragmatic transfer.

It is illustrated with examples that the infinitive can be substituted for the subordinate clause to make sentences more concise and more sprightl

In order to improve the performance of translating English complex sentence in a English Chinese translation system,we present a new approach to subordinate clause recognition using a corpus based method.

In different contexts, "but" can serve as a coordinating conjunction, which can express various meanings, and as a subordinating conjunction, which can introduce different kinds of subordinate clauses.