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Panda blue 483 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Type of clause/usage dependent clauses

Apples and Oranges are delicious fruit. These two are closer than you think.
The two are closer than you think.


Are these dependent clauses? There is no main subject but 'these' refers back to the first sentence in 'context but 'the' is different. Do they require a comma instead of period.


Should it be punctuated like this.

Apples and Oranges are delicious fruit: the two are closer than you think.



The most fitting conclusion to his brilliant career in track and field. (what's missing from this dependent clause ?).

  

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panda blue 483 Apples and oranges are delicious fruit. Are these dependent clauses? No; they are separate sentences.

— Mister Micawber

  • panda blue 483 Apples and oranges are delicious fruit.
  • Are these dependent clauses?
  • No; they are separate sentences.
  • panda blue 483 these' refers back to the first sentence in 'context but 'the' is different.
  • Do they require a comma instead of period.
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panda blue 483Apples and oranges are delicious fruit. These two are closer than you think.The two are closer than you think.Are these dependent clauses?

No; they are separate sentences.

panda blue 483these' refers back to the first sentence in 'context but 'the' is different. Do they require a
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panda blue 483Are these dependent clauses?

No. They are main clauses.

panda blue 483There is no main subject

Each main clause has a subject. They are underlined below.

Apples and oranges are delicious fruit.  (compound subject)
These two are closer than
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