Clause Types
Must contain at least one independent clause
What is a sentence?
An action, state of being, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
Identify the subject: The students needed more time for the test.
What are the students?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
A little word that shows the relationship between objects or clauses in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
Cannot stand on its own
What is a dependent clause?
What is the subject?
Identify the verb in the sentence: The students wanted a longer summer.
What is wanted?
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A word that connects words and clauses, like and, for, nor, but, if, so.
What is a conjunction?
Must contain a subject, a verb, and sometimes an object.
What is an independent clause?
What is the predicate?
Identify the direct object: I hit the ball to the outfield.
What is the ball?
Describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
Identify the pronoun: I wanted my coat, but my mom said it was too hot.
What is my?
Identify the following: Once I knew the answer
What is a dependent clause?
The recipient of the verb.
What is the direct object?
Identify the direct object: I passed my mother the fried okra.
What is the fried okra?
Stands in for a noun.
What is a pronoun?
Identify the verb: My dog needed surgery.
What is needed?
Identify the following: We loved the new movie.
What is an independent clause?
What is the indirect object?
Identify the indirect object: I gave my sister a smile.
Who is the sister?
Example: a/an, the
What is an article?
Identify the conjunction: The little girl screamed, but her mother ignored her.
What is but?