{"id":71771,"date":"2019-08-26T06:17:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T06:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71771"},"modified":"2019-08-26T06:17:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T06:17:02","slug":"main-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/main-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A main clause is a clause capable of making a complete sentence by itself. A sentence always contains at least one main clause, and a simple sentence consists only of a single main clause.<\/p>\n<p>In the simple sentence <em>Alice started making dinner<\/em>, the whole sentence is the main clause. In the compound sentence <em>Peter cooked dinner, and Alice did the washing-up<\/em>, there are two main clauses connected by and.<\/p>\n<h3>Matrix clause<\/h3>\n<p>A clause which contains a subordinate clause within it.<\/p>\n<p>In the complex sentence <em>The employees who were dismissed are suing the company<\/em>, the matrix clause is <em>The employees \u2026 are suing the company<\/em>, while the remainder <em>who were dismissed<\/em> is the subordinate clause contained within it.<\/p>\n<p>A matrix clause is often a main clause, but it need not be: it can itself be a subordinate clause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A main clause is a clause capable of making a complete sentence by itself. A sentence always contains at least one main clause, and a simple sentence consists only of a single main 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":[781,782,784,863],"class_list":["post-71771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-clause","tag-clauses","tag-main-clause","tag-matrix-clause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71771","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=71771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71772,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71771\/revisions\/71772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}