Phrases, Clauses, Sentence Structure
Identify the clause: From 1991 until her death in 1996, she served on various government committees and used what she had learned in her many years of public service to fight corruption in politics.
Subordinate
Independent clause (main)
a sentence/clause that can stand by itself, has a subject, verb, and a complete thought. Also known as a simple sentence or a main clause.
Clause
a word group that contains a verb and its subject and is used as a sentence or part of a sentence.
Conjunctive adverb
a word that joins one part of a sentence to another. Provides a transition for two sentences.
Dependent clause (subordinate)
also known as a fragment or a subordinate clause, has a subject and verb, but no complete thought.
What word is often missing from a dependent clause?
that
Identify the clause: However, Jordan was still not widely recognized until she gave the keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention.
Subordinate
Identify the clause: In 1972, she won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives , where only one other black woman -- Shirley Chisholm -- had ever been a member.
Subordinate
Identify the clause: Two years after the speech, Jordan decided that she would retire from national politics.
Subordinate
Identify the clause: When Jordan began her public service career in 1966, she became the first African American woman to serve the Texas legislature.
Subordinate
Identify the clause: Whenever I think of Barbara Jordan, I imagine her as she looks in a picture taken in 1986.
Subordinate
Subordinating Conjunction
a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause. Examples, after, if, when, because, since, where, before, unless, while
Noun clause
a dependent clause used as a noun and functions as a S, DO, IO, OP, and PN
Adjective clause
a dependent clause used as an adjective, it modifies nouns and pronouns. Answers the question, what kind, and which one, located after the word it modifies
Phrase
a group of related words used as a single part of speech, does not contain a both a verb and its subject
What are the four different types of sentence structures?
Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex
Identify the clause: According to my mother, Jordan spoke eloquently about the importance of values in our society.
Independent
Identify the clause: After she returned to Texas in 1978, Jordan taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
Independent
Identify the clause: Of course, her choice of subject matter surprised no one since she had long been known as an ethical force in politics.
Independent
Identify the clause: Seen on television by millions of people, Jordan immediately gained national attention.
Independent
What are three ways to form a compound sentence?
Connect independent clauses with a comma and coordinating conjunction Connect independent clauses with a semicolon Connect independent clauses with a transitional word, a semicolon, and a comma
Adverb clause
dependent clause used as an adverb. Modifies ADJ, ADV, or V. Answers how, when, where, why, to what extent, and under what conditions. Introduced by subordinating conjunction.
Relative adverb
relative adverb when means "in which" or "at which" and is used to refer to a time expression.
Complex sentence
sentence type made by one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
Simple sentence
this is a sentence type with one independent clause.
Compound Complex sentence
this sentence type contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Compound sentence
this sentence types contains two independent clauses and no dependent clauses.
Relative pronoun
type of pronoun that often introduces dependent clauses in sentences. They also can stand alone as the subject or object of a sentence. There is a specific list of relative pronouns, and here they are: who, whoever, whom, whomever, that, which, when, where, and whose.
