'As per' Usage
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'As per' Usage
Is 'as per' a Subordinative Conjunction in the following sentence?
"Treatment given as per doctor's order'
"Treatment given as per doctor's order'
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Dictionaries don't analyze it further than labelling it an idiom, while in grammars (e.g. the LGSWE, pg 75) it is listed simply as a complex (i.e. multi-word) preposition. I don't think it is worth trying to break it down beyond that, so you'd probably be best just trying to think of synonyms e.g. according to, in accordance with, in compliance with, in line with, etc.
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Sorry for not addressing your question of subordination. My understanding is that 'as per doctor's orders' is an adverbial (the whole could be replaced with e.g. 'correctly'), and it isn't a clause (further clause) but rather just an element (a phrase) in yes a simple sentence. The "complexity" (that is, simply multiwordedness of what would otherwise have been a single word) is confined just to the (name of the) preposition.
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