LESSON 32 RULES OF SYNTAX (CONTINUED) (d) DEPENDENT CLAUSES Note—Sentences containing dependent clauses consist of a principal clause containing the main subject and its predicate or verb, and one or more subordinate or dependent clauses. These latter may be formed in a variety of ways, as follows:— (I) OBJECT CLAUSES. Here the subordinate clause is itself the object of the verb in the principal clause. Thus in Matt. 9:28, Πιστεύετε ὅτι δύναμαι του̂το ποιη̂σαι, the clause from ὅτι to ποιη̂σαι