Clauses: Main & Subordinate

A group of words with a subject/verb relationship

• Phrase

• Clause

• Predicate

What is the blue group of words?
Employees may leave work for personal reasons after they receive permission from the manager.

• Phrase
• Dependent Clause
• Independent Clause

What is the green group of words?
Employees may leave work for personal reasons after they receive permission from the manager.

• Phrase
• Dependent Clause
• Independent Clause

Although I am exhausted from work.

• Phrase
• Dependent Clause
• Independent Clause

When I spoke to my employer about a raise.

• Phrase
• Dependent Clause
• Independent Clause

All of the words below would make the following clause dependent EXCEPT:
__________ rain continues to fall.

• Since
• Although
• Heavy
• If

What is the red group of words?
Because of bad weather, the shopping mall closed early. 

• Dependent clause
• Independent Clause
• Noun phrase
• Sentence

What type of clause is in RED?

When the day ends, we can all go home and make cookies.

• dependent clause

• independent clause

What type of clause is in RED?

We went to the game, and our team won!

• dependent clause

• independent clause

What is a clause?

• A clause is a group of words, similar to a phrase

• A clause is a word which connects two sentences

• A clause is a group of the words that have a subject and a verb

• A clause is a group of words that is like a conjuction