Welcome to this tutorial today we are going to have an overview of clauses.
Let's get started.
Now a clause is a combination of words containing a subject and a predicate.
Have a look at the examples over here Peter goes to the gym.
Now this is one clause.
Peter goes to the gym after he finishes his work.
Now there are two clauses in the sentence.
Peter goes to the gym and he finishes his work.
There are two types of clauses in English A.
An independent or main clause no one independent or main clause contains a subject and a predicate and
expresses a finished thought.
Thus it can stand alone in a sentence.
Have a look at the examples below.
Pam likes drawing and painting.
Expresses a finished thought.
Andy is currently unemployed expresses the finished thought and both sentences have a subject and a
predicate.
Note that the independent clause is a simple sentence when dependent clauses within one sentence are
absent.
Be a dependent or subordinate clause a dependent or subordinate clause gives additional information
to the main sentence.
Thus it can not stand alone.
That's a separate sentence.
Have a look at the examples below Mr Clarkson was works are critically acclaimed has published a new
book.
Now this clause whose works are critically acclaimed is a dependent or a severe Nicolaus.
And it gives us additional information about Mr Clarkson
Larry started laughing when she saw a pug wearing a costume.
Now when she saw a pug wearing a costume it's a dependent or subordinate clause and it gives us a bit
more details about why she started laughing
now.
An independent clause forms the complex sentence together with a dependent clause.
Have a look at the examples below.
I'd like to know why I can't book a room at this hotel.
The woman stood crying as people were passing by.