This section has shown that languages do not necessarily share the same syntactic strategies as the familiar European languages. Subordination, where one clause headed by a verb is embedded inside another clause headed by a verb is widely used in many language families, including non-European ones. But it’s important to realize that it’s not only possible strategy. The two major alternative constructions are serialization (two finite verbs within the same predicate) and nominalization (a verbs converted to a noun, so that the clause takes on the properties of a noun phrase).