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.
But where the crowd at the original festival incurred only a few bad LSD trips and injuries mostly sustained from excessive love-making, Woodstock '99 was one of the biggest debacles in concert history, with 60 concertgoers hospitalized due to violence within their ranks, widespread fires, vandalism and looting costing millions of dollars.