PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Learn About Dependent & Independent Clauses
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]
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Conditional Sentences. Main Clause: Will, if Clause: Will
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,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Phrases and Clauses
Learn to spot the differences between phrases and clauses.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjective Clauses
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses including defining them, listing the three requirements for them, providing the adjective clause formula, discussing placement and essential vs. non-essential, explaining how to...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Clauses: The Essential Building Blocks
Online PowerPoint writing tutorial on the subject of clauses in sentences. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Clauses
This online grammar guide provides a definition of clauses and how they function in sentences.
City University of New York
Writesite: Clauses
Grammar and writing tutorial defines clause, independent clause, and dependent clause and provides exercises.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjective Clause
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,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This lesson focuses on adverb clauses; it defines adverb, clause, and adverb clause. It discusses the functions of adverb clauses, how they are formed, what questions they answer in the sentence, and provides examples.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Relative Clauses
We use relative pronouns to connect descriptive phrases to nouns, creating a relative clause. Test your knowledge of how they work!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Link Clauses With Semicolon
Semicolons join two closely related independent clauses in a single sentence. Without these, there would be run-on sentences that no one could slow down! [0:57]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adverb Clauses
A nine-slide presentation explaining adverb clauses, how they often utilize subordinating conjunctions, and how to punctuate them correctly.
Other
Tameri Guide for Writers: Clauses and Phrases
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...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Clause Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, but it provides great practice on recognizing clauses. The quiz is twenty questions long with multiple choice answers, looking at independent clauses,...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Main Clause
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.
Other
Legal Writing: Clauses Restrictive & Non Restrictive
This online writing guide for law students provides definitions and examples of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and instructions for punctuating clauses correctly. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Main & Subordinate Clauses
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...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Essential Clause
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an essential clause in the context of a sentence.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Grammar: Clauses
This site discusses the two main types of clauses. Content includes instructions for and examples of using clauses to build different types of sentences and information on recognizing types of clauses.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Adjective Clauses
Defines and provides examples of adjective clauses (defining and nondefining or restrictive and nonrestrictive). Link to exercises.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Noun Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide provides instructions and examples for using subordinate (dependent) clauses as nouns in constructing sentences.
Other
Colgate University: Clauses, Conjunctions, and Punctuation
This grammar tutorial explains constructing sentences using independent and dependent clauses with correct punctuation.
Rutgers University
Rutgers Univ.: Guide to Grammar and Style: Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
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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