Balancing and deranking
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 == Deranked verb forms == Verb forms that occur in subordinate clauses of various languages that cannot occur in independent clauses are of various types, but there do exist some typical patterns that differentiate these forms from main-clause verb forms in the same language.