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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Dependent Clauses: Adverbial, Adjectival, Nominal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry defines dependent clauses including Adverbial, Adjectival, and Nominal; explains and lists their common introductory words, and provides examples of their uses in sentences.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on grammar and writing focuses on clauses including dependent and independent clauses and run-on and comma splice sentences. It features links to "Purdue OWL: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses," "Purdue OWL:...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dependent and Independent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
Independent clauses can be sentences. Dependent clauses can't! Let's take a deeper dive into what that looks like in this exercise.
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The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Dependent Clause

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, and it has great information on the dependent clause. The site provides numerous examples along with information on usage and tips for recognizing dependent...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adverb Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on adverb clauses; it reviews adverbs. It defines adverb clauses, explains how to create them using examples, and provides a list of subordinate conjunctions that often begin adverb clauses.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Clause

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides definitions and examples of main (independent) clauses, subordinate (dependent) clauses, relative clauses, and noun clauses. It also offers instructions on using these clauses in sentences.
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City University of New York

Writesite: Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Grammar and writing tutorial defines clause, independent clause, and dependent clause and provides exercises.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on clauses; it defines the term and the two main types: independent and dependent. It lists the two types of dependent clauses: adjective and adverb; it provides examples of each, explains how to identify...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Learn About Dependent & Independent Clauses

For Students 3rd - 7th
A clause is a group of words that acts as a subject and a group of words that acts as a verb. A clause consists of a subject and a predicate, where the predicate is typically a verb phrase. [0:57]
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Main & Subordinate Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides definitions and examples of main and subordinate (independent and dependent) clauses. It also provides an interactive exercise on identifying these types of...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Phrase and Clause Placement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose the best placement for the phrase or clause in the sentences provided!
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Main Clause

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Grammar tutorial for understanding the main clause (independent clause) and distinguishing the subordinate (dependent) clause. Provides examples and instructions for using clauses in constructing sentences.
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Other

Colgate University: Clauses, Conjunctions, and Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar tutorial explains constructing sentences using independent and dependent clauses with correct punctuation.
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Other

Legal Writing: Dependent Clauses & Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing guide for law students provides information on distinguishing phrases and independent and dependent clauses.
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Other

Tameri Guide for Writers: Clauses and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first half of this tutorial on clauses and phrases covers topics such as independent clauses, dependent clauses, adjective clauses, adverb clauses, noun clauses, essential clauses, and nonessential clauses. The second part discusses...
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Noun Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online grammar guide provides instructions and examples for using subordinate (dependent) clauses as nouns in constructing sentences.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Realism: Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on clauses including dependent, independent, adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. It also explains the use of subordinate conjunctions, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs and provides examples. It features a...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Independent and Dependent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing lab offers definitions of the two main types of clauses as well as related concepts. It provides examples and offers instructions for avoiding common mistakes with clauses. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Conditional Sentences. Main Clause: Will, if Clause: Will

For Students 9th - 10th
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the topic of conditional sentences. In this resource, a main clause with the word "will" and a dependent clause with a future tense verb, along with the word "if" as a subordinate conjunction,...
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Rutgers University

Rutgers Univ.: Guide to Grammar and Style: Dependent Versus Independent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a section from an online source called the Guide to Grammar and Style which provides an explanation of the difference between dependent and independent clauses.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Phrases and Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to spot the differences between phrases and clauses.
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online grammar guide provides a definition of clauses and how they function in sentences.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adjective Clause

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on adjective clauses; it defines adjective, clause, and adjective clause. It explains the function of adjective clauses, how they are formed using relative pronouns or adjectives, how to identify them in a sentence,...

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