Clauses in Sentences

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Types of clauses

A "clause" is a subject, finite verb, complement pattern and all the words that chunk to it.

In the last lesson I talked about compound sentences -- sentences that are joined together with a word like "and".

You can see in the reading above that "main clauses" are those that can stand by themselves.

Here is a diagram that shows how it looks when two main clauses are joined together with a conjunction.

example from here

Here's another one that shows a similar sentence pattern to our sentence about the squirrels.

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