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15 Clauses
Warm-up
State whether these groups of words are sentences, phrases or clauses.
1. What do you plan to do today?
2. if it doesn’t rain
3. the sunflowers in the field
4. that is close to our hive
5. My friend
6. who stays in Park Hive
7. has invited me
8. The child has a toy which is made of metal.
9. a metallic toy
10. unless you run very fast
11. when you get back from the trip
12. catch a cold
You have learnt that a clause is a group of words which has a verb and a subject.
A clause that does not need another clause to make sense is called the
principal, or main clause.
A clause that has to depend on another clause in order to make sense is called
the subordinate, or dependent clause.
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