Help with this question: Indicate whether each of the following is a phrase, a main clause, or a subordinate..
What’s a phrase? what’s a main clause? what’s a subcordinate clause?
Give me some examples in these sentences please.
a) slipping into the icy water under the grey November sky.
b) since the store opened in February last year
c) when the clock in the hallway struck four
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A main clause has a subject & verb & makes sense by itself, like none of the examples. An example would be: “We ate ice cream.”
A subordinate clause is like (b) and (c). They have subjects, (the store and the clock), and verbs (opened and struck), but they need a main clause like “we ate ice cream” , to make sense.
So, the three would all be good sentences with a good main clause added:
We ate ice cream, slipping into the icy water…
We ate ice cream since the store opened…
We ate ice cream when the clock…
