A subordinating conjunction joins a subordinate (dependent) clause to a main (independent) clause: +. Here are some common subordinating conjunctions: 1  after, although, as, because, before, how, if, once, since, than, that, though, till, until, when, where, whether, while.
Forty years ago, half a million people gathered for three days of peace, love and letting their private parts flap all over the hashish-covered mud at a place called Woodstock. This event exists as mythology for most of our readers, who only know it from a series of photographs and wistful documentaries.
With about 220,000 people in attendance and another 10,000 working the festival, Woodstock '99 temporarily made the festival site the third most populated city in New York state. Now imagine turning off that city's water supply. With temperatures hovering from the high 80s to, in some accounts, hitting the 100s, water became a necessity.