A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech - 1A masteral student in Myanmar doing comparative research on the four types of sentences in English — namely simple, compound, complex, and ...

Commas don't just signify pauses in a sentence — precise rules govern when to use this punctuation mark. Commas are needed before coordinating conjunctions, after dependent clauses (when they ...

Relative clauses do not make sense on their own and therefore need independent clauses to form sentences. Noun clauses are basically dependent clauses that function like nouns in sentences.

As I tell my college freshman in discussing dependent clauses, we call the dependent clauses because they “depend” on the independent clause in order to achieve grammatical correctness. At the same ...

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What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech - 2This is the second part of my reply to a question by a Masteral student in Myanmar in early December on how to distinguish direct speech from ...

Relative clauses do not make sense on their own and therefore need independent clauses to form sentences. Noun clauses are basically dependent clauses that function like nouns in sentences.