Dependent and independent lesson with quiz

Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative, adverbial) to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations.

ELAGSE9-10L1.b:

​ Independent

&

dependent clauses

What is a clause?

• It contains a subject and verb

• ​Examples :

  - When the girl ran toward the field.

  -The girl ran toward the field.

• ​Independent clauses: A group of words that includes a subject (noun) and verb (or predicate) and can stand independently.

  • Independent clauses convey complete ideas that require no additional information

Multiple Choice

what is an independent clause?

• a complete thought that can't stand by itself as a sentence

• a simple-complex sentence

• a complete thought that can stand by itself as a sentence

• a type of french braid

• Dependent clauses: A group of words that includes a subject and verb ( or predicate) and can not stand on its own

  • The dependent clause conveys incomplete ideas that require additional information.

  • dependent clause often leaves the audience asking, "What happened as a result of "what happened next"?
    
    
    
    
    

Multiple Choice

what is a dependent clause?

• does not express a complete thought

• a compound sentence

• a complete sentence

• a complete thought

​Here some examples of both independent and dependent clauses.

Multiple Choice

Is the blue clause independent or dependent?
We went to Danube because we ran out of eggs.

• Independent

• dependent

Multiple Choice

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

• dependent

• independent

Multiple Choice

The books that were bestsellers caught his eye, because they were put on a special table.

The underlined clause is__________________.

• independent

• dependent

Multiple Choice

John Steinbeck, whose writing is always intriguing, was one of my favorite authors in high school.

The underlined clause is______________________

• independent

• dependent