BJU 11th Grammar: Clauses

Identify the underlined clause:

Do you know what four countries the United Kingdom comprises?

• Independent Clause

• Dependent Clause

Identify the underlined clause:

After you have thought for a few moments, you will probably remember them all: England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.

• Independent Clause

• Dependent Clause

Identify the underlined clause:

What then do people mean when they say "Great Britain"?

• Independent Clause

• Dependent Clause

Identify the underlined clause:

This term often refers to the large island west of Europe; this island contains England, Scotland, and Wales.

• Independent Clause

• Dependent Clause

Identify the underlined clause:

Ireland is not attached to the island of Great Britain: rather, it is an island that is divided into the self-governing Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.

• Independent Clause

• Dependent Clause

Identify what word the underlined adjective clause modifies:

Last summer, my friend Karan went of a trip that was organized by her school.

• Summer

• Karan

• Went

• Trip

Identify what word the underlined adjective clause modifies:

Burdened for the country of Scotland, Keren's class consistently met in a room where they could pray after the day's events.

• country

• class

• met

• room

Identify what word the underlined adverb clause modifies:

Elise, or Bulgarian descent, had moved to Scotland after her husband's company transferred him there.

• Elise

• descent

• had moved

• Scotland

Identify what word the underlined adverb clause modifies:

Now that Elise had moved away from her homeland, she found herself searching for stability and truth.

• found

• searching

• stability

• truth

Identify the function of the underlined noun clause:

Whatever transpired in fourteenth-century Scotland was clearly an act of God.

• Subject

• Predicate Noun

• Direct Object

• Object of the Preposition

• Appositive