Phrases and Clauses

A group of words without a subject or a verb

• A Simple Sentence

• A Phrase

• An Independent Clause

• A Dependent Clause

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

Has a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. It CAN stand alone as a sentence.

• A Compound Sentence

• A Dependent Clause

• A Phrase

• An Independent Clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Has a subject and a verb, BUT DOES NOT represent a complete thought. Cannot stand alone as a sentence.

• A Dependent Clause

• An Independent Clause

• A Phrase

• A subordinating conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

A sentence with one independent clause.

• A phrase

• A compound sentence

• A simple sentence

• A subordinating conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.1.1J

Two or more independent clauses joined in one sentence.

• A compound sentence

• A phrase

• A complicated sentence

• An independent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Turns an independent clause into a dependent clause. You can remember the most common ones with the acronym (AAAWWUBBIS)

• supporting ideas

• A simple sentence

• subordinating conjunctions

• A compound sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1H

at the beginning of class

• an independent clause

• a dependent clause

• a phrase

• a compound sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

CCSS.L.4.1E

She was mad.

• A simple sentence

• An independent clause

• A dependent clause

• A phrase

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

because someone ate her lunch

• a phrase

• a simple sentence

• an independent clause

• a dependent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

after, although, as, when, while, until, because, before, if, since,

• coordinating conjunctions

• subordinating conjunctions

• a phrase

• AAAWWUBBIS

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.5.1A