[Tex/LaTex] Figure caption side by side of the last subfigure

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I have a figure consisting of 4 subfigures and a quite long caption. What I would like to do is to have the first three subfigures in the first row and the last one in the second row while the figure's caption is placed side by side of the last subfigure. The objective is economizing the number of pages in my thesis. I saw that the side position for the caption might be possible for a single figure using the "floatrow" package, but in may case, I am using the subfigure package too. I would appreciate it if anyone could help me?
Here is an example of my relative part of code and the output I would like to have…

\begin{figure}[htbp]
   \centering
   \begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
     \centering
     \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{./chapter5/Figures/prad31.png}
     \caption{}
     \label{fig:prad31}
  \end{subfigure}
  \begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
     \centering
     \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{./chapter5/Figures/prad32.png}
     \caption{}
     \label{fig:prad32}
 \end{subfigure}
 \begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{./chapter5/Figures/prad33.png}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:prad33}
 \end{subfigure}
 \begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{./chapter5/Figures/prad34.png}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:prad34}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{Impact of parameter $D$. ....: (a) 11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (d) 14.}
\label{fig:prad3}
\end{figure}

The desired output shape

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Once again, minipages are the solution.

eliSubfloatCaption

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image}
        \caption{}
        \label{fig:prad31}
    \end{subfigure}\hfill
    \begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
        \caption{}
        \label{fig:prad32}
    \end{subfigure}\hfill
    \begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
        \caption{}
        \label{fig:prad33}
    \end{subfigure}\medbreak
    \begin{subfigure}{.3\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-c}
        \caption{}
        \label{fig:prad34}
    \end{subfigure}\hfill
    \begin{minipage}{.6\linewidth}
    \caption{Impact of parameter $D$.  ....: (a) 11.  (b) 12.  (c) 13.  (d) 14.}
\end{minipage}
    \label{fig:prad3}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] beamerposter subfigure

You are using the now obsolete package subfigure; you should use subcaption instead.

The reason why the numbering for the subfigures does not reset is because you are not using a caption for the figures (and the subfigure counter resets every time the figure counter is incremented, which wont happen without a caption). A quick fix would be to add

\setcounter{subfigure}{0}

just before each new group of figures to manually restart the counter (or to add in the preamble

\renewcommand\thesubfigure{}

to suppress the numbering for the subfigures, as you also propose in your question).

An automatic solution can be obtained by using a \caption for the figures; if you want to suppress the name Figure and the label separator : that the use of \caption causes, then one possibility is to use in the preamble

\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionStyle{mystyle}{name=none}
\captionsetup[figure]{style=mystyle}
\usepackage{floatflt,subfigure}

and to write \caption{} inside each figure environment.

[Tex/LaTex] Subfigures, long caption side by side

You are using \includegraphics[width=12cm]{FIGURE2} where as your 0.5 text width may not be 12cm. You should be using width=\linewidth You can use width=\textwidth also as subfigure is actually a minipage and \textwidth refers to the width of text inside minipage. And don't leave a blank line in between subfigures as it would indicate a paragraph break. With this, we have

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subcaption,graphicx}
\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \begin{subfigure}[t]{.5\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
        \caption{Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines}
        \label{fig:bestC1Sitting}
    \end{subfigure}%
    %%%                                             Don't leave blank line
    \begin{subfigure}[t]{.5\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
        \caption{Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines}
        \label{fig:bestC1Standing}
    \end{subfigure}

\end{figure}
\end{document}

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Looking UGLY isn't it?. We need some space in between. So change \begin{subfigure}[t]{.5\textwidth} to \begin{subfigure}[t]{.45\textwidth} with a \hfill in between the subfigures.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subcaption,graphicx}
\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \begin{subfigure}[t]{.45\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
        \caption{Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines}
        \label{fig:bestC1Sitting}
    \end{subfigure}%
    %%                          %   Don't leave blank line
    \hfill                      %%  <--- here
    \begin{subfigure}[t]{.45\textwidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
        \caption{Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines Really long text over 2 lines}
        \label{fig:bestC1Standing}
    \end{subfigure}

\end{figure}
\end{document}

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I also don't get what's the point of \textwidth or linewidth? Are this relative positions?

\textwidth is generally the global width of the text area. The parameter \linewidth contains the line length inside a list (or derived) environment and it may change in a nested list (while \hsize, \textwidth and \columnwidth don't change).

See egreg's answer from which I borrowed above lines. Hope it will be clear.

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