Grammar Challenge about Clauses

What is a clause?

• A group of words without a subject or verb.

• A group of words that contains a subject and a verb and is used as a sentence.

What are the subordinate clauses in English?

• gerund, participial and infinitive phrase

• subordinating conjunctions

• adjective, adverb, and noun clause

• compound sentences.

A group of words that has a subject and a verb but cannot work as a sentence because it lacks a complete message

• phrase

• subordinate clause.

• independent clause

• complex sentence

Subordinating conjunctions are the words that introduce...

• adverb clauses

• adjective clauses

• noun clauses

• independent clauses.

In the sentence: Before you called me, I had already finished my lunch. The adverb clause is.

• I had already finished my lunch.

• Before you called me.

What is one thing that phrases and clauses have in common?

• Both can be the interjection of a sentence.

• Both can work as verbs in a sentence.

• Both can contain subjects and verbs

• Both can work as adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.

In the sentence: Because crepes are delicious, Joy makes them on special occasions. the independent clause is.

• Because crepes are delicious.

• Joy makes them on special occasions.

• There is no independent clause.

What is the difference between an adverb clause and an adjective clause?

• Adjective clauses modify verbs; adverb clauses modify nouns.

• Adjective clauses function as subjects, adverb clauses functions as adjectives.

• Adjective clauses describe nouns, adverb clauses modify verbs.

Adverb clauses are introduced by relative pronouns.

• True

• False

The words that introduce an adjective clause are called.

• Relative pronouns

• Persuasive pronouns

• Reciprocal pronouns

• Reflexive pronouns.