English subordinators

English subordinators (also known as subordinating conjunctions or complementizers) are words that mostly mark clauses as subordinate. The subordinators form a closed lexical category in English and include whether; and, in some of their uses, if, that, for, arguably to, and marginally how.

Syntactically, they appear immediately before the subordinate element. Semantically, they tend to be empty.

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