LANGUAGE AND WRITER’S CRAFT: CLAUSES
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Learning Targets
 Identify
and analyze the effect of
independent and dependent clauses.
 Effectively
integrate adverbial and
adjectival clauses into writing.
Clause:
A group of words with both a subject and verb

Independent: Can stand alone as a complete
sentence.

Dependent: does not form a complete idea,
and therefore cannot stand alone.
Please watch this
explanation.
On your notes…

Draw a telephone pole.

Label it “Independent Clause”

Draw another telephone pole with a baseball bat
leaning against it.

Label the bat “Dependent Clause”

Around the bat, scatter these marker words: after,
although, as, if, because, before, since, though, until,
unless, when, while
Let’s practice.
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Write 2 independent clauses.
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Write 2 dependent clauses.

Share them.
Compound Sentences

Draw 2 more telephone poles, and connect them with
wires.

Label the wires “Coordinating Conjunctions – FANBOYS”

FANBOYS = for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
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Independent clause + comma + FANBOYS +
Independent clause = Compound sentence.

My brand new kitten jumps all over me, so I am going to
trim her claws. (two independent clauses joined with a comma
and a FANBOYS word)

Write your own compound sentence.
Complex Sentences

Dependent clause + comma + independent clause =
complex sentence
,
Because my kitten jumps all over me I am going to cut her
claws.
OR
 Independent clause + dependent clause = complex
sentence
 I am going to cut her claws because my kitten jumps all over
me.
 Now, write your own complex sentence.
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