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I'm Mignon Fogarty and this week I have a meeting middle about subordinating clauses

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And now on to subordinate clauses.

Frazes and clauses are both groups of words that work together in a sentence.

The difference is that a clause has a subject and a verb.

Often a clause could be a sentence if it were all by itself and when it could be we call

it a main clause or an independent clause.

Here's an example.

Zombies hunt the remaining humans.

That's a main clause.

A phrase on the other hand is missing something.

Frazes work within sentences.

There are prepositional phrases, noun phrases, and so on.

Sources can play a lot of different roles in a sentence, but they work with main clauses.

Somewhere every sentence must have a main clause.

Here's an example of a prepositional phrase followed by a main clause.

On the TV show The Walking Dead, zombies hunt the surviving humans.

So the prepositional phrase is on the TV show The Walking Dead and the main clause is

zombies hunt the surviving humans.

Now that you understand that, we can talk about subordinate clauses.

They get their name from the fact that they always start with a subordinating conjunction,

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