{"id":71704,"date":"2019-08-21T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71704"},"modified":"2019-08-21T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:00:47","slug":"clause-what-are-clauses-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/clause-what-are-clauses-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Clause | What Are Clauses In English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of words consisting of a subject and a predicate is called <strong>a clause.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<\/p>\n<p>The dog barks.<br \/>\nThe sun shines.<br \/>\nAnn sang a song.<\/p>\n<p>There are two principal types of clause: <strong>a main clause<\/strong> can stand alone to make a sentence by itself, while a <strong>subordinate clause<\/strong> must be attached to another clause within a larger sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Every sentence must contain at least one main clause, though a sentence may contain two or more main clauses, and in any case may additionally contain one or more subordinate clauses.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the sentence <em>Alice wrote the letters<\/em> consists of a single main clause, while the sentence <em>Alice wrote the letters and Peter posted them<\/em> consists of two main clauses connected by and, and the sentence <em>Peter started making dinner while Alice tidied the lounge<\/em> consists of a main clause plus a subordinate clause beginning with while.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A simple sentence<\/strong> consists of a single main clause.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<br \/>\nMike started making dinner.<br \/>\nSusie tidied the lounge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A compound sentence<\/strong> consists of two or more main clauses. The clauses are often connected by a conjunction <strong>like and, or, but or yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike smokes but Peter doesn\u2019t.<br \/>\nAlice wrote the letters and Peter posted them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A complex sentence<\/strong> consists of one main clause plus one or more subordinate clauses.<\/p>\n<p>Alice said (main clause) that she would come (subordinate clause).<br \/>\nYou may sit (main clause) wherever you like (subordinate clause).<br \/>\nWill you wait (main clause) till I return (subordinate clause)?<br \/>\nIf you eat too much (subordinate clause) you will fall ill (main clause).<\/p>\n<p><strong>A compound-complex sentence<\/strong> consists of two or more main clauses plus one or more subordinate clauses.<br \/>\nAfter she left university (subordinate), Alice moved to London (main) and her boyfriend followed her (main).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of words consisting of a subject and a predicate is called a clause. Examples are: The dog barks. The sun shines. Ann sang a song. There are two principal types of clause:&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[781,782,784,785,783],"class_list":["post-71704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-clause","tag-clauses","tag-main-clause","tag-subordinate-clause","tag-types-of-sentences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71705,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71704\/revisions\/71705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}