How to indentify main clause and subordinate clause?
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Subordinate Clauses: Result Clause
The "result clause" is used when you want to indicate the result of what is expressed in the main clause.
The conjunctions are:
that
with the result that
These conjunction are always preceded, in the main clause, with "so", "such", "so much", "so many", "so few", "so little":
... so (that) clause
... so + adjective + that clause
... so + adverb + that clause
... so many + noun + that clause
... so much + noncount noun + that clause
... so few + noun + that clause
... so little + noncount noun + that clause
... such + adjective + noun + that clause
Examples:
The green leaves of the banana trees are so thick that the sunlight cannot pass through.
She coughed so hard that she lost her voice.
He smelled so bad that we had to leave.
Stella has so many friends that she can't keep up with them all.
A main clause—sometimes called an independent clause—must contain a subject and a verb as well as express a complete thought. Look at the examples below:
Diane kicked the soda machine.
Diane = the subject; kicked = the verb.
A giant spider has made its home behind the shampoo bottle in Neil's bathroom.
Spider = the subject; has made = the verb.
Sima and Michele are skipping their chemistry class to sit by the lake and watch the sun sparkle on the water.
Sima, Michele = the subjects; are skipping = the verb.
Remember this important point:
You must have at least one main clause in every sentence. A main clause is the essential component. Without a main clause, a group of words is a fragment, a major error in writing.
A sentence can contain any number of other grammatical units, such as participle phrases, prepositional phrases, subordinate clauses, appositives, etc. It must, however, contain at least one main clause. Take a look at the example below:
Main clause have a subject and verb and can stand on there own subordinate clause began with a conjunction and therefore cannot stand on there own. They leave the reader thinking
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