Eng: Clauses - Definitions/Notes
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dmccorkleporter on February 3, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 phrase | group of words that functions as a single part of speech -- no subject or verb |
| clause | group of words that functions as a single part of speech -- has subject and verb |
| independent clause | a clause that can stand alone from the sentence and still make sense |
| subordinate (dependent) clause | a clause that cannot stand alone from the sentence -- 3 types: adjective, adverb, and noun |
| adjective clause | group of words that describes a noun or pronoun |
| questions that an adjective answers | what kind? -- which one? -- how many? -- how much? -- whose? |
| signal words for adjective clauses | who, whom, that, which, whose, when, where |
| adverb clause | a group of words that functions as an adverb, modifying verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs |
| signal words for adverb clauses | after, although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, as though, because, before, how, if, in order that, since, so that, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where, wherever, whether, while |
| questions that an adverb answers | how? -- when? -- where? -- why? -- to what extent? -- under what condition? |
| noun clause | a gorup of words containing a subject and a verb that functions as a noun |
| parts of a sentence that a noun can be | subject, direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, object of a preposition |
| signal words for noun clauses | how, however, that, what, whatever, when, where, which, whichever, who, whom, whatever, whomever, whose, why, whenever |
| simple sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and no subordinate clauses |
| compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses and no subordinate clause |
| complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and one or more subordinate clause |
| compound-complex sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses |
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