Clauses

Help me out by…..

• Making sure you have picked up a bell work paper.

Bell work 1A

A. Mary, who just returned from a cruise, misses swimming in the Mediterranean sea.

B. I said, “Do you want the boots, the sandals, or the running shoes?”

C. Hugo Guerrero, sr., is opening a Spanish-language bookshop in San Diego.

D. On new Year’s day,my stepmother is taking us to dinner and a fireworks display.

Bell work

A. The Senior Citizens’ Center is offering a seminar on exercise, stress, and nutrition.

B. The Pueblo Indian dwellings in the cliffs of arizona are remarkable.

C. Has any author won the pulitzer, booker, and nobel prizes?

D. Local guides lead people on the dangerous climb up mount Everest.

Reminders

• TEST ON FRIDAY. Test will be on CLAUSES and Sentence Structure.

• Homework- Supplies, Signed Contracts, Remind 101, & Poll question.

Clauses

• Clause-a group of words with its own subject and verb.

Independent Clause

• An independent clause can stand alone and function as a sentence.

• Example– I love to eat ice cream.

Subordinating Clause

• A subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence and does not express a complete thought.

• Example 2:– When you arrive at the airport in Dallas, call us. – These wildflowers, which grow only locally, are of

interest to scientists. – Did you know that he had granted us an

interview?

Keywords for

Subordinating Clause

Who Although Since When What

Whom As So that Whenever Whatever

Whose As if Than where Why

Which As long as though Whenever Whoever

That As soon as Unless Whether Whomever

After Because Until While if

Practice• _____1. The fire started because someone did

not smother a campfire.• _____2. The family that bought our house is

moving in next week. • _____3. I saw the job advertised in the school

paper and decided to apply for it. • _____4. Did you know that Dr. Joel is the new

ambassador to Lebanon?• _____5. We were proud that you conceded

defeat so graciously.

Practice

• _____6. Mr. Kim will buy the store if the bank lends him the money.

• _____7. According to Mrs. Garza, our math teacher, the binary system is important to know.

• _____8. Wherever Maggie goes, her poodle Jack follows.

• _____9. She won the golf match because she had practiced diligently.

• ____10. Whatever you decide is fine with me.

Benjamin Franklin was a man who symbolized the spirit of early America. Although he was born in Boston,

Franklin moved to Philadelphia as a young an. When he arrived there, he began working as a printer. Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanac, the

publication for which he was most famous. Science was also an area that fascinated him. His experiments proved that lightning was a form of electricity. Many of Franklin’s achievements occurred when he was an

old man. When Franklin was seventy, he attended the Continental Congress. After the Revolutionary War started, he served as an ambassador to France. All

Americans recognize that Franklin’s contributions were important.

Group Work

Sentence Structure

• Structure refers to the number and types of clauses in a sentence.

• A simple sentence contains INDEPENDENT clause and NO SUBORDINATE clauses.

• Example:

• Quick Check! Ray and Joe worked and saved enough for a trip to Ohio. Is this a simple sentence? ____________

A COMPOUND sentence contains 2 INDEPENDENT clauses and NO SUBORDINATE clauses. They may be joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction; by a semicolon; or

by a semicolon, a conjunctive adverb, and a comma.

Coordinating Conjunctions

• For• And• Nor• But• Or• Yet• So

Conjunctive Adverbs

Therefore Meanwhile Still

Also Nevertheless however

A few examples

• A COMPLEX sentence contains INDEPENDENT clause and AT LEAST 1 SUBORDINATE clause.

• A COMPOUND COMPLEX sentence contains 2 OR MORE INDEPENDENT clauses and AT LEAST 1 SUBORDINATE clause.

Differentiate between the independent and subordinate clauses. Then classify each sentence as simple, compound, complex, or

compound-complex.

1. We chose one way; they chose another. ___________________2. They learned a dance with a variety of steps.

___________________3. Whenever Angelo gets to school early, he talks to his friends.

___________________4. The vibrations from the jet caused the vase to fall and crack.

___________________5. The gum stuck to his face; it looked like glue.

___________________6. Stuck to his face, the gum looked like glue. ___________________7. The gum that stuck to his face looked like glue.

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