Question

read the following passage.

the rain poured for days. many roads were closed, and the rivers flooded. until the water subsided, we navigated the flooded streets in kayaks and inner tubes.

which sentence in this passage uses subordination? select the best answer.

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the rain poured for days. many roads were closed, and the rivers flooded. until the water subsided, we navigated the flooded streets in kayaks and inner tubes.

Explanation:

🆕 New Concept Discovered: Subordination in Sentence Structure
Connecting unequal ideas using dependent clauses

Step 1: Understand subordination

Subordination is a grammatical method of combining two ideas where one idea is made dependent on the other. This is done using a subordinating conjunction (such as because, although, since, if, while, or until).

A subordinate clause (or dependent clause) cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and is joined to an independent clause (a complete thought).

Step 2: Analyze the sentences in the passage

Let's look at each sentence in the passage to identify its structure:

1. "The rain poured for days."

• This is a simple sentence with one independent clause. It does not use subordination.

1. "Many roads were closed, and the rivers flooded."

• This is a compound sentence. Two independent clauses are joined by the coordinating conjunction and. This is coordination, not subordination.

1. "Until the water subsided, we navigated the flooded streets in kayaks and inner tubes."

• This sentence contains a dependent clause: "Until the water subsided" (introduced by the subordinating conjunction until).
• It also contains an independent clause: "we navigated the flooded streets in kayaks and inner tubes".
• Because it connects a dependent clause to an independent clause using a subordinating conjunction, this sentence uses subordination.

Answer:

Until the water subsided, we navigated the flooded streets in kayaks and inner tubes.