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BUILDING SENTENCES WITH CLAUSES

BUILDING SENTENCES WITH CLAUSES A clause contains a subject and a verb. An independent clause may stand alone as a sentence: He crossed her mind. He didn’t stay there. Independent clauses may be joined by a coordinating conjunction: He crossed her mind, but he didn’t stay there.

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BUILDING SENTENCES WITH CLAUSES

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  1. BUILDING SENTENCES WITH CLAUSES A clause contains a subject and a verb. An independent clause may stand alone as a sentence: He crossed her mind. He didn’t stay there. Independent clauses may be joined by a coordinating conjunction: He crossed her mind, but he didn’t stay there. (notice the comma before the conjunction)

  2. Dependent clauses may not stand alone as a sentence: Once we have these mastodons under control Join the dependent clause to an independent clause with a comma: Once we have these mastodons under control, we’ll build a fire.

  3. from Bram Stoker’s Dracula There was a deliberate voluptuousness. It was both thrilling and repulsive. She arched her neck. She actually licked her lips like an animal. I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue. It lapped the white sharp teeth.

  4. There was a deliberate voluptuousnesswhich was both thrilling and repulsive, andas she arched her neckshe actually licked her lips like an animal, tillI could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongueas it lapped the white sharp teeth.

  5. from Phillip Roth’s American Pastoral On the last day of the season, in a game against the Giants, who are in the first place by only half a game, the Kid kindles the Dodgers’ hitting attack, and in the bottom of the fourteenth, with two down, two men on, and the Dodgers ahead on a run scored by the Kid with audacious, characteristically muscular base running, he makes the final game-saving play, a running catch smack up against the right center-field wall. There was a clap of thunder. Rain descended upon the Polo Grounds. Notice Roth’s use of short and long sentences for variety.

  6. Clyde wanted cash. Bonnie wanted thrills.Write as two independent clauses that are closely connected, without a period:

  7. Clyde wanted cash. Bonnie wanted thrills. Write using a dependent clause (subordinating conjunction):

  8. Clyde wanted cash. Bonnie wanted thrills. Write as two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction:

  9. My dog is ugly. I love him anyway. Write as two independent clauses that are closely connected, without a period:

  10. My dog is ugly. I love him anyway. Write using a dependent clause (subordinating conjunction):

  11. My dog is ugly. I love him anyway. Write as two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction:

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