Dependent and Independent Clauses

What is a dependent clause?

• does not express a complete thought

• a complete sentence

• a compound sentence

• a complete thought

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is an independent clause?

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

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

• a simple-complex sentence

• a type of french braid

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the subordinating conjunction?
 
Unless we get rain soon, the flowers will die.

• flowers
• unless
• die
• soon

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

What is the subordinating conjunction?
 
I will finish my homework after the movie is over.

• finish
• homework
• after
• over

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

Which is NOT a dependent clause?

• Because I wanted to
• When she heard her dog
• if the snow stops
• Nick likes to build a wall.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

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

• dependent clause
• independent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Before I went to school, I had a huge cup of coffee.

• dependent clause
• independent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Is the blue clause independent or dependent?
When we visited Paris, we saw the Eiffle Tower.

• dependent
• independent

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What word should the comma be after?
 
Although she was tired she couldn't fall asleep.

• although
• tired
• no comma

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

We like to put up decorations

• independent clause
• dependent clause
• both a dependent and an independent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B