STEP SEVEN

There are two different types of clauses: INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT

STEP 8
AN INDEPENDENT CLAUSE
COMMUNICATES AN IMPORTANT IDEA

MEMORY REFRESHER
Hey, what is an idea? Oh, you simple-headed gherkin! An idea is a clause, and a clause consists of a subject and a verb. EXAMPLE: Bill sings.
The above is a clause, which is an idea because it contains a subject (Bill) and a verb (sings).
IMPORTANT IDEA = SUBJECT + VERB = CLAUSE

STEP 9
A DEPENDENT CLAUSE
COMMUNICATES A LESS IMPORTANT IDEA

I DONT GET IT???

What is the difference between an independent clause and a dependent clause? IVE JUST GOT TO KNOW! TELL ME WHAT IS IT! PLEASE, PLEASE TELL ME
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

STEP 10
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN INDEPENDENT CLAUSE AND A DEPENDENT CLAUSE IS THIS
WHILE BOTH CONSIST OF A SUBJECT AND A VERB, THE DEPENDENT CLAUSE HAS ONE EXTRA WORD THAT BEGINS THE CLAUSE, WHICH IS REFERRED TO AS A SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION.

EXAMPLE
BILL SINGS = AN INDEPENDENT CLAUSE, WHICH EQUALS AN IMPORTANT IDEA

IF BILL SINGS = A DEPENDENT CLAUSE,

IF = A SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION

WHICH MEANS (IF BILL SINGS) IS A LESS IMPORTANT IDEA.

STEP 11
THE FOLLOWING IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

SORRY
You are going to have to put that list together for yourself. If I give you the books, you will find them! Hey If I give you the books is a dependent clause, that makes it a less important idea than -you will find them, which is the important idea in that sentence.

GOOD LUCK

Hold Everything! Since I changed rooms, I dont have those books. Lucky youhere is a list of subordinating conjunctions. Hey did you notice the dependent clause (since I changed rooms) joined to an independent clause (I dont have the books). Hmmm? More about that later.
after although as - as if as long as as much as as soon as as though because before even if even though how if in order that now that provided (that) since so that than that though till or til unless until when whenever where wherever while