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Subordinating Conjunction - Make relationship A Subordinating Conjunction comes at the beginning of a Subordinate Clause and establishes the relationship with the rest of the sentence. What are Subordinating Conjunctions? "Make relationship between two clauses / sentences" A Subordinating Conjunction comes at the beginning of a Subordinate or Dependent Clause and establishes the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence. It also turns the clause into something that depends on the rest of the sentence for its meaning. Common Subordinating Conjunctions are: As If As if If only As long as Either Even Even if Even so Even Though How However In case In order that In spite of Since Than Rather than Till Until That Now that Though Although As though So Because Before After Except Only Once Otherwise Neither Unless What Where When Whenever Whereas While Whilst Without Wherever Whether