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.
More than 185,000 people bought tickets for Woodstock, and it was only when hundreds of thousands more began amassing at the perimeter that the fences were torn down and the festival declared as free. Commercial considerations were also at the heart of determining who did, and didn't, appear.