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subaltern - use in sentences
Converse of object
- have: Back to top We had a subalterns ' court-martial the other day.
Preposition: at
- front: Friend and foe and the dead A subaltern at the front writes.
Adjective modifier
- senior: I was the senior subaltern at the time and so introduced him to life in the Battalion.
- young: The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern.
- other: And this was perhaps more than some of the other subalterns received - in addition to their army pay, that is to say.
- former: As a former subaltern of the Life Guards, he is still fettered by the curious, but stern social code of his regiment.
Modifies a noun
- officer: Subaltern Junior officer of ensign or lieutenant rank in the British Army.
- class: Victorian society officially granted the possibility of social betterment to the subaltern classes: the veracity of this potentiality is interrogated in the text.
- group: What are the implications of commemorative history to both dominant and subaltern groups within American society?
- politics: In this way, the book contributes to some of the most crucial debates on the nature of subaltern politics and consciousness.
- form: But then the subaltern O form: ' Some S is not P ' must be true.
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