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1. CLAUSE AND PHRASE
By. Melati Pratiwi, M.Pd

2. CLAUSE
Is a group of words that contains a subject and verb
 Independent Clause : makes sense on its own as sentence
Ex: I go to office
 Dependent clause : doesn’t make sense on its own as a
sentence.
Ex : Although I am not feeling well, I go to office

3. INDEPENDENT CLAUSE
 Independent Clause : makes sense on its own as sentence. It
consists of Subject and Predicate
Ex:
 I go to office
 We are Happy
 They play football

4. DEPENDENT CLAUSE
 Dependent clause : doesn’t make sense on its own as a
sentence.
Ex :
 Although I am not feeling well, I go to office
 We are happy when we go to the beach
 We are going to the store so we can buy some snacks

5. TYPES OF DEPENDENT CLAUSE
 Adjective Clause
Adverb Clause
Noun Clause

6. ADJECTIVE CLAUSE
 It modifies nouns and pronouns
Ex:
 The black box found yesterday
 The beautiful girl came to my party last night

7. ADVERB CLAUSE
 Modifies verb, adjectives, and adverbs
Ex :
 The box found late
 The girl came after the party done

8. NOUN CLAUSE
It can identify by asking question : what or who?
Example:
 I know that she gets a new job
Question: What do I know?
Answer : That she gets a new job
 What you do now is most important
Question: What is most important?
Answer: what you do now

9. NOUN CLAUSE
Usually begins with words like that, what, if, whether, how,
where, who, whom, whose, why, however, whatever,
wherever, whoever, etc.
Example:
 She does not know where he lives
 They still do not know whether they will win or not
 Whatever you do, do it well

10. Phrase
Is a group of words without a subject-verb
component (Not complete sentences)
Noun Phrase (ex: best friend)
Verb phrase (ex: was working)
Adjective phrase (ex: Very pretty)
Adverb phrase (ex: Really slowly)
Preposition phrase (ex: in the beach)