Pick out the sub-ordinate clause and state its kind: 1. The vase that is lying on the desk is a gift from my friend. 2. While Suman was talking on phone, her purse fell from her hand. 3. What Ravi said was true. 4. If you pay your bills on time, you can have a good credit score.
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Here's a definition of clause (slightly redacted) from
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clause:
Definition of clause
A group of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a member of a complex or compound sentence.
The sentence "When it rained they went inside" consists of two clauses: "When it rained" and "they went inside."
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"When it rained" cannot stand alone: When it rained . . . what? What happened when it rained?
Again, from the Merriam-Webster site:
Definition of subordinate clause
A clause that does not form a simple sentence by itself and that is connected to the main clause of a sentence.
In the sentence "I went home because I felt ill," "because I felt ill" is a subordinate clause.
A subordinate clause has a subject and verb, but cannot stand alone as a sentence, because it begins with a Subordinate Conjunction or a Relative Pronoun, that connects (subordinates) the clause to the main one.
Check out this site for a really good list of subordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns and examples (and it's printable):