In linguistics, balancing and deranking are terms used to describe the form of verbs used in various types of subordinate clauses and also sometimes in co-ordinate constructions.
- A verb form is said to be balanced if it is identical to forms used in independent declarative clauses
- A subordinate verb form is said to be deranked if it cannot be used in independent declarative clauses
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