Question

she talks as if she were mad (choose the subordinate clause) she talks, as if, as if she were mad, she were mad​

Answer 1

Subordinate clause is "as if she were mad"

Explanation:

Subordinate clauses are used to add more information to sentences, but it cannot stand as a sentence. It can come at various points in a sentence.

Like all clauses, a subordinate clause has a subject and verb.

There are three types of subordinate clauses: adjective, adverb, and noun.

Example:  

• Although I was scared, I crept inside.
• The girl, who was eight, ran.

Given sentence:

She talks as if she were mad

• Main clause: She talks.
• Subordinate clause = As if she were mad.
• Subordinate conjunction = As if.
• Here, the subordinate clause comes at the end of the sentence.
• Since this subordinate clause modifies a verb, talk, this is an adverb subordinate clause.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Among the four options given in question statement, the correct option is C.

Here as if she were mad is the subordinate clause.

A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. Simple sentences have one clause; compound sentences have two or more independent clauses.

In given sentence, she is the subject and mad is a state supporting the talk vrb but this is subordinate as it needs some phrase to complete its meaning