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Noun Clauses
Independent and Subordinate Clauses
Adverb Clauses
Adjective Clauses
Essential and Nonessential Clauses
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I can be used as a noun.
What is a noun clause?
100
I can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
100
I function as an adverb.
What is an adverb clause?
100
My job is to describe the noun phrase that follows.
What is an adjective clause?
100
I am necessary to identify the noun that is being described.
What is an essential clause?
200
Who, whom, whoever, whomever.
What pronouns are in a noun clause?
200
I cannot stand alone.
What is a subordinate clause?
200
I am needed to connect an adverb clause to another clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
200
A relative pronoun, subject, and a predicate.
What are the required parts in an adjective?
200
I am not essential to the understanding of the sentence since they merely supply some additional information.
What is a nonessential clause?
300
I am a noun clause that begins with a question word.
What is an Embedded clause?
300
I contain a subject and a verb.
What is an independent and subordinate clause?
300
I can also be used to separate an adverb clause and another clause.
What is a comma?
300
I am the connecting word in an adjective clause.
What is a relative pronoun?
300
We start at the beginning of essential and nonessential clauses.
What is who and which?
400
I am used in questions, but not noun clauses.
What is does, did and do?
400
I am a word that makes an independent clause into a subordinate clause.
What is a dependent marker word?
400
I modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
What is an adverb?
400
In this type of adjective clause, the relative pronoun is the subject of the clause.
What is a subject pattern clause?
400
I am required when there is a nonessential clause.
What is commas surrounding the nonessential clause?
500
I am what the noun clause subject takes.
What is a singular verb?
500
I am a connecting word used at the beginning of an independent clause.
What is an independent marker word?
500
I have missing words that are understood.
What is an Elliptical adverb clause?
500
In this type of adjective clause, the relative pronoun is the object of the clause.
What is an object pattern clause?
500
What is the other name for essential and nonessential clauses?
What is restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses?