Independent & Dependent Clauses

Find both subjects:

Coraline sleeps even though the other mother trapped her.

• Coraline

• sleeps

• mother

• trapped

Find both predicates:

Coraline sleeps even though the other mother trapped her.

• Coraline

• sleeps

• mother

• trapped

Find the subjects:

Coraline listened when the cat talked.

• Coraline

• listened

• cat

• talked

Find the predicates:

Coraline listened when the cat talked.

• Coraline

• listened

• cat

• talked

Find the subordinating conjunction:

Coraline left because the other father wouldn't talk.

• left

• because

• father

• would

Find the dependent clause:

Coraline left because the other father wouldn't talk.

• Coraline left

• Coraline left because

• because the other father wouldn't talk

• the other father wouldn't talk

Find the independent clause:

Coraline left because the other father wouldn't talk.

• Coraline left

• Coraline left because

• because the other father wouldn't talk

• the other father wouldn't talk

Find the subordinating conjunction:

Coraline walks until the forest disappears.

• walks

• until

• the

• forest

Find the dependent clause:

Coraline walks until the forest disappears.

• Coraline walks

• until

• until the forest disappears

• the forest disappears

Find the independent clause:

Coraline walks until the forest disappears.

• Coraline walks

• until

• until the forest disappears

• the forest disappears