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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Clause

When is a clause independent?
  

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Anonymous When is a clause independent? When it contains a finite verb and does not begin with a subordinating expression or complementizer and does not modify some element of another clause. Independent clause: I left the room.

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  • Anonymous When is a clause independent?
  • When it contains a finite verb and does not begin with a subordinating expression or complementizer and does not modify some element of another clause.
  • Independent clause: I left the room.
  • Not independent clauses: When I left the room Before I left the room If I left the room Having left the room My leaving the room Wanting to leave the room ...
  • why I left the room ...
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AnonymousWhen is a clause independent?
When it contains a finite verb and does not begin with a subordinating expression or complementizer and does not modify some element of another clause.

Independent clause:

I left the room.

Not independent clauses:

When I left the room
Before I left the room
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AnonymousWhen is a clause independent?

A clause is independent if it can stand alone as a complete sentence.

So a simple sentence is one example of an independent clause.

The other place you see an independent clause is in a complex sentence, which has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

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