The document discusses main and subordinate clauses through examples. It provides sentences with a main clause and blank for a subordinate clause, asking the reader to choose the best option to complete the sentence. It also asks the reader to provide their own example sentences. The purpose is to illustrate how main and subordinate clauses are used in sentences.

1. Main and subordinate clauses
Main Claus e s
and
S ubo rdinate Claus e s
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2. Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
when I got on the bus
Lisa is revising for her exams
I paid the driver
by the time the bus had left
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3. Main and subordinate clauses
I paid the driver when I got on the bus.
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4. Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make one up of your own:
unless it is open.
because the food is great.
Eat at Smoky Joe’s
although the cat is asleep.
?
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5. Main and subordinate clauses
Eat at Smoky Joe’s because the food is great.
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6. Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make one up of your own:
until I had put on my hat
while I was putting on my hat
Because it was raining,
I took my umbrella with me
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7. Main and subordinate clauses
Because it was raining, I took my umbrella
with me.
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8. Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
the postman knocked on the
door.
when he went around to the
back door.
Since the doorbell was
broken,
it looked like warm weather.
?
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9. Main and subordinate clauses
Since the doorbell was broken, the postman
knocked on the door.
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10. Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
Although he is over fifty
Even if the train was on time
which reminded them
so much of home.
They stared at the pictures
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11. Main and subordinate clauses
They stared at the pictures which reminded
them so much of home.
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12. Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
since it was addressed to her.
Sherlock Holmes studied the
envelope carefully.
Before opening the letter,
just as Mike reached the door.
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13. Main and subordinate clauses
Before opening the letter, Sherlock Holmes
studied the envelope carefully.
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