You know that a sentence is a
group of words with a subject and a
verb. A clause also has the same
characteristics.
A
clause is a group of words
with a subject and a verb.
But a clause is always part
of a sentence.
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Examples:
- After dinner, John
told Cathy the bad news.
- On her way to
work, Susan
found a stray dog.
In the first
sentence, the group of words, John
told Cathy the bad news, contains a subject, John, and a verb, told. It's a clause.
In the second
sentence, the subject is Susan and the verb is found.
Susan found a stray dog is a clause.
After
dinner and On
her way to work are also groups of words
but they don't have either a subject
or a verb. They are phrases.
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