(9) SUBSTANTIVE:  that, whether, sometimes if, are used frequently to introduce noun clauses used as subject, object, in apposition, etc.

Examples of the use of subordinate conjunctions:—­

[Sidenote:  Place.]

     Where the treasure is, there will the heart be also.—­Bible.

     To lead from eighteen to twenty millions of men whithersoever
     they will.—­J.  QUINCY.

     An artist will delight in excellence wherever he meets it. 
     —­ALLSTON.

[Sidenote:  Time.]

     I promise to devote myself to your happiness whenever you shall
     ask it of me.—­PAULDING.

     It is sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France.—­BURKE.

[Sidenote:  Manner.]

     Let the world go how it will.—­CARLYLE

     Events proceed, not as they were expected or intended, but as
     they are impelled by the irresistible laws.—­AMES.

[Sidenote:  Cause, reason.]

     I see no reason why I should not have the same
     thought.—­EMERSON.

     Then Denmark blest our chief,
     That he gave her wounds repose. 
     —­CAMPBELL.

     Now he is dead, his martyrdom will reap
     Late harvests of the palms he should have had in life. 
     —­H.H.  JACKSON

     Sparing neither whip nor spur, seeing that he carried the
     vindication of his patron’s fame in his saddlebags.—­IRVING.

[Sidenote:  Comparison.]

     As a soldier, he was more solicitous to avoid mistakes than to
     perform exploits that are brilliant.—­AMES.

All the subsequent experience of our race had gone over him with as little permanent effect as [as follows the semi-adverbs as and so in expressing comparison] the passing breeze.—­HAWTHORNE.

[Sidenote:  Purpose.]

     We wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might
     celebrate its immense beauty.—­EMERSON.

[Sidenote:  Result.]

     So many thoughts moved to and fro,
     That vain it were her eyes to close. 
     —­COLERIDGE.

     I was again covered with water, but not so long but I held it
     out.—­DEFOE.

[Sidenote:  Condition.]

     A ridicule which is of no import unless the scholar heed
     it.—­EMERSON.

     There flowers or weeds at will may grow,
     So I behold them not. 
     —­BYRON.

[Sidenote:  Concession.]

     What though the radiance which was once so bright
     Be now forever taken from my sight.—­WORDSWORTH.

[Sidenote:  Substantive.]