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What do you notice about the following three groups of words?
with a view of the riverThe first two seem to be missing information. This is because they are simply phrases. The third, however, makes a complete thought, because it has both a subject and a predicate. "My uncle lives on the fifth floor" is a clause. |
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•A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate. •Every sentence has at least one clause. •Independent clauses can stand alone as sentences, but dependent clauses cannot. |
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