There are different types of clauses including adverb clauses, adjective clauses, and noun clauses. Adverb clauses are subordinate clauses that modify verbs and always begin with a subordinator like "because" or "when". Adjective clauses modify nouns and begin with relative pronouns like "who" or "that". Noun clauses can act as subjects, objects, or objects of prepositions in sentences, often being the object of a verb. They are introduced with subordinators like "that" or "what".

1. Clauses

2. What is a clause?
A group of words that has a subject and a
verb

3. There are different kinds of clauses.
adverb clause,
adjective clause,
noun clause,

4. Adverb Clauses = Subordinate clauses
It has a subordinator in the beginning:
if, when, even though, though, because, since,
although, after, as soon as, before, until

5. Adverb Clauses = Subordinate clauses
An adverb is part of a complex sentence:
Because Dan is sick, he didn’t go to work.

6. You can tell it’s an adverb clause because you can
change the order in the sentence:
Dan didn’t go to work because he was sick.
(no comma)

7. FANBOYS are different. They are the seven
conjunctions:
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
They are NOT subordinators.
They used to make compound sentences
with two main clauses:

8. FANBOYS are different. They are the seven
conjunctions:
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
They are NOT subordinators.
They used to make compound sentences with
two main clauses:
Dan is sick, so he didn’t go to work.

9. Dan is sick, so he didn’t go to work.
In doesn’t work to change the order the way
it does with a subordinator.

10. Adjective Clauses
Go after a noun and modify the noun.

11. Adjective Clauses
The girl who(m) my son is dating is very
beautiful.
The woman who is wearing a red shirt is my
teacher.

12. Adjective Clauses
Begins with a relative pronoun:
who, whom, that, which, where, when
Always follow the noun that they modify.

13. Noun Clauses
What role can a noun take a sentence?
Subject, object, object of a preposition,
complement for a linking verb

14. Noun Clauses
A noun clause can do all the same things in a
sentence.

15. Noun Clauses
Often it is the object of a verb:
The teacher said that we did well on the
midterm exam.

16. Noun Clauses
Sometimes, especially in formal writing, it’s the
subject of a verb:
Why he wants to marry her is a mystery.

17. Noun Clauses
Sometimes it’s the subject of a preposition:
I’m confused about what the teacher was
saying.