T. examines the correlation between subordinate clauses in English written narrative and the notion of temporal sequencing. The main question asked is: is subordination inversly correlated with foregrounding in the sense of `sequentially ordered'? The results show that, while the majority of temporally sequenced events are coded by independent clauses, a significant subset are subordinate. The latter are claimed to allow the writer to accomplish a text-creation goal in addition to the one of maintaining the temporal line.