{"id":438,"date":"2014-01-05T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/s-is-for-subordinate-clause-phrases-and-clauses\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T19:33:48","slug":"s-is-for-subordinate-clause-phrases-and-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/s-is-for-subordinate-clause-phrases-and-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"S is for SUBORDINATE CLAUSE—Phrases and Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We talked about PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES when we did the letter P a while ago. Now we are going to move into S–SUBORDINATE CLAUSES.<\/p>\n

We have talked at length about what a sentence contains:<\/p>\n

C apital<\/p>\n

A ll makes sense<\/p>\n

V erb<\/p>\n

E nd mark<\/p>\n

S ubject<\/p>\n

CAVES!<\/p>\n

Again, most people have trouble witht the A one–All makes sense. When a “sentence” doesn’t make sense, it is often because it is not a sentence at all, but it is a phrase or a clause.<\/p>\n

We are going to talk in detail about phrases and clauses in the upcoming weeks because we are going to talk a lot about sentence structure–openers, simple sentences, compound sentences, etc.<\/p>\n

So…a little “phrase and clause” lesson is in order first:<\/p>\n

1. Phrase–<\/p>\n

a. Group of words<\/p>\n

b. Group of words that is not a sentence<\/p>\n

c. Group of words that is not a sentence and does not usually contain a subject and a verb (though may seem to have one or the other)<\/p>\n

d. There are various types of phrases–the one that people are most familiar with is the prepositional phrase–begins with a preposition and ends with the object of the preposition:
      i. over the clouds
     ii. into the clouds
    iii. around the clouds
   iv. within the clouds
    v. under the clouds<\/p>\n

2. Clause<\/p>\n

a. Group of words<\/p>\n

b. Group of words that might or might not be a sentence<\/p>\n

c. Group of words that contains a subject and a verb<\/p>\n

d. Two kinds of clauses<\/p>\n

     i. Independent clause–also called a sentence<\/p>\n

     ii. Dependent clause–also called a subordinate clause<\/p>\n

Don’t despair! These are not as complicated as they sound! You write with them all the time–but I hope to help you recognize them and punctuate them correctly in sentences–over the next few weeks!<\/p>\n

Happy writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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