"What Is a Clause in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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[@Khatoon170]

Clause is group of words that contains both subject and predicate and functioning as member of complex entry , or compound . Example it rained they went inside . Consists of two clauses when it rained and they went inside . Types of clauses are independent , adverbial , noun , adjective, depent clause. Principal , coordinate clause . Non finite clause . Main clause is central idea of sentence . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

[@AdrianaTerron]

Loved this so much! Big Charlie Chaplin fan, and such a great way to explain clauses. The banana as subordinating conjunction-- brilliant.

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[@shadowmaster6156]

Been stuck on this concept for a while, thanks for making it clearer. 👍

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[@ruxsky7593]

You taught me what my professor tried to do for a whole year

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[@desfurria6232]

Although although Charlie tries to climb the stairs. Does repeating some of them, change it back to an independent clause?

[@hakushokuhikari]

No, that's grammatically wrong

[@lary2238]

I've got some questions, what's the difference between a clause and a phrase? Also, I would like to know if a single clause can have more than one subject?

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Thanks for the questions, @lary2238 ! We cover phrases in another video in this series, which covers the difference between clauses and phrases. And yes, clauses can have multiple subjects! Here's an example of a dependent clause with two subjects: "While the cat and I watched tv, the goldfish swam." In that dependent clause, "cat" and "I" are the subjects.

[@lary2238]

​@@SWLF Thx!! btw can 'cat and I' in your example sentence be considered a compound subject?

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Indeed it can! Apologies for the delay in responding--for some reason KZbin didn't let us know that you had replied.

[@enamorezpascal5191]

Now i know. I didn't remember this topic during my english class in grade school

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Nice video.. Most valuable

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[@vikaswakde]

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[@emaye7121]

PERFECT 🥰

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[@ahmadshiraz8087]

How sweet

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