here<\/a> if you need to brush up on subordinators via our Subordinator-Check Sentence or subordinate rhyme.<\/p>\nSubordinate Clause Opener: Now for the opener part.<\/p>\n
If you have been reading Language Lady for long, you have learned that a sentence opener has the following characteristics:<\/p>\n
1. It gives a sentence more information.<\/p>\n
2. It comes at the beginning of a sentence, which gives a paragraph a different rhythm than if it included all subject-verb patterned sentences.<\/p>\n
3. It is often set off with a comma-again, adding to the rhythm of your sentences.<\/p>\n
4. It si usually non-essential, meaning that the senence is still a sentence without the addition of an opener.<\/p>\n
5. It shows advanced writing skills because a writer who has a handle on the many varieties of sentence openers has a large toolbox of sentence structure at his disposal.<\/p>\n
So…if a subordinate clause is a group of words that contains a subordinator+subject+verb, then a subordinate clause opener is a subordinator+subject+subordinate clause that is used as a sentence opener.<\/p>\n
Simple enough, huh?<\/p>\n
The tricky parts of subordinate clause openers are<\/p>\n
(1) Be sure that you never use a subordinate clause opener by itself, thinking it is a sentence. (It will sound like something is missing-because it is-the real sentence!)<\/p>\n
(2) Be sure that you put a comma following a subordinate clause opener.<\/p>\n
When you start a sentence with a subordinate clause, <\/b>Put the comma in when you hear the pause!<\/b> <\/b><\/p>\n
Here are some complex sentences created with subordinate clause openers attached to “real” sentence. In grammar lingo, each one is a complex sentence because it has a dependent clause<\/b><\/i> (subordinate clause) at the beginning attached to an independent clause<\/b><\/i> (real sentence).<\/p>\n
If you learn subordinators well, you may write sentences with subordinate clauses.<\/p>\n
If you put a dependent clause at the beginning of a sentence, put a comma in before writing the real sentence part.<\/p>\n
As you learn more and more about sentence structure, your writing will improve.<\/p>\n
Since people are impressed by good grammar and strong writing, you will become an impressive person as you learn grammar usage.<\/p>\n
When you start a sentence with a subordinate clause, put the comma in where you hear the pause.<\/p>\n
Although many people do not remember much about dependent and independent clauses, this does not make these clauses unimportant.<\/p>\n
Because I want to write well, I am working on my usage skills.<\/p>\n
Though some consider analyzing sentences as outdated, I know that it helps me write better.<\/p>\n
If you lasted to the end of this lesson, you will be able to write well with subordinate clause openers!<\/p>\n
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I teach subordinate clause openers extensively in my books because punctuating them properly is key to sentence writing. Do you remember what a subordinate clause is from yesterday? A subordinate clause is a sentence (independent clause-can stand alone) that has a subordinator added to the beginning of it (which makes it a dependent clause-is dependent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,628,640,82,632],"tags":[139,138,137],"yoast_head":"\n
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