An independent clause can stand alone while a Subordinate clause can't.
What is the difference between an Independent clause and a Subordinate clause?
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An adverb is a subordinate clause that is used as an adverb. An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb and what does it modify?
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An adjective clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective clause?
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A nonessential clause needs commas but an essential clause doesn't.
What is the difference between a nonessential clause and an essential clause?
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An example is:
"Give whoever answers the message."
(hint:Whoever answers is the Noun Clause)
What is an example(sentence) that uses a noun clause?
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'After I fell asleep' is a Subordinate clause.
Is this an independent clause or a Subordinate clause?
'After I fell asleep'
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When
Is this sentence telling WHERE something happened or WHEN something happened.
Whenever I hear the news,I listen closely
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who,whom,and whose
What are the three relative pronouns of adjectives?
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That were built is the nonessential clause.
Is the clause in this sentence Essential or Nonessential?
Some castles,(that were built), in the Middle Ages still sand.
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How, what, where, which, and whoever
What are 5 words that introduce a Noun clause?
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Subordinate
Is this an Independent or Subordinate clause?
'When is it hard'
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They sometimes will end in -ly.
What do some adverb's end in.
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What kind?/ Which one?/ How many?
What are the three questions an adjective asks?
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Essential means necessary or important.
What does essential mean?
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The word noun comes from the Latin word nōmen meaning name. In the Latin language, nouns are assigned one of three different grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, or neuter. Nouns also are assigned one of five different morphological groups called declensions.
Where does the word noun come from?
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A clause is just another word for a group of words containing one subject and one verb.
What is a clause
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An adverb clause will always begin with a subordinating conjunction. These words are adverbs-they often answer questions like when, where, why, how, under what conditions, in what manner, or two what extent.
What does an adverb always begin with?
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An adjective clause usually comes after the noun it modifies and is made up of several words which, like all clauses, will include a subject and a verb.
What does an adjective come after?
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If you remove the non-essential clause from the sentence, the meaning of the sentence won't change, but there will be less information.
What is one thing that won't change using a nonessential clause?
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A person, place, thing, or idea
What does a Noun modify?
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A dependent clause
What is a subordinate clause also called?
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Some are:after, although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, as though, because, before, even though, if, in order that, provided(that), since,(etc.)
What are 15 subordinating conjunctions?
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Some examples are:'the black haired girl', ' a 9 year old girl', and' the pretty dress.'
What are some examples of adjective clauses?
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Yes
Does an essential clause need to make sense all the time?