ENGLISH - Clauses

• Clauses and Conjunctions
• Clauses and phrases make up a sentence
• In the previous quarter, we learned that a phrase is a group of words without a subject and a verb
• Clauses add more information in the sentence too; however, unlike phrases, clauses consist of a subject and a verb
• There are two basic kinds of clauses: independent and dependent
• Independent clauses


  The type of clause that can stand alone. Meaning they are a complete sentence by itself, hence it is sometimes referred as the main clause
• Independent Clause


  • Dr. Renato U. Solidum, Jr. is the head of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PhiVolcs)
  • PhiVolcs monitor volcanic, earthquake, and tsunami activity
• Dependent clause


  A group of words that contains a subject and a predicate but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence
• Compound sentence


  A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses that are joined by a coordinating conjunction
• Compound-complex sentence


  A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause
• Complex sentence


  A sentence that contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause