Week 3
 Main Clauses: They make sense on their own e.g. I
walked home.
 Subordinate Clauses: Do not make sense on their own
(it is an incomplete thought/sentence) e.g. because it
was a nice day.
 Subordinate clauses need a main clause to make sense
(complete the thought/sentence) e.g. I walked home
because it was a nice day.
Main and subordinate clauses
Main Clauses
and
Subordinate Clauses
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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
when I got on the bus
Lisa is revising for her exams
I paid the driver
by the time the bus had left
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Main and subordinate clauses
I paid the driver when I got on the bus.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make one up of your own:
unless it is open.
because the food is great.
Eat at Smoky Joe’s
although the cat is asleep.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Eat at Smoky Joe’s because the food is great.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make one up of your own:
until I had put on my hat
while I was putting on my hat
Because it was raining,
I took my umbrella with me
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Main and subordinate clauses
Because it was raining, I took my umbrella
with me.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
the postman knocked on the
door.
when he went around to the
back door.
Since the doorbell was
broken,
it looked like warm weather.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Since the doorbell was broken, the postman
knocked on the door.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
Although he is over fifty
Even if the train was on time
which reminded them
so much of home.
They stared at the pictures
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Main and subordinate clauses
They stared at the pictures which reminded
them so much of home.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
since it was addressed to her.
Sherlock Holmes studied the
envelope carefully.
Before opening the letter,
just as Mike reached the door.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Before opening the letter, Sherlock Holmes
studied the envelope carefully.
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