A. clause
Clause is a group of words or sentence that contains a subject and a verb.
Examples:
a. Kezi helps him.
b. Yuga protects it.
Phrase is two words, which one is explaining about the main idea, and the other express as the adverb of it.
Examples:
a. Yuga rides his red car.
b. Kezi eats red apple.
Sentences are a group of words that can be used to communicate your ideas with other people.
Examples:
a. Kezi drinks a glass of milk everyday.
b. Yuga gets exercises every morning.
Independent clause is a clause that contains subject, verb, and expresses complete thought. It can stand alone as a sentence by itself.
Examples:
a. Kezi usually drinks a glass of milk everyday.
b. Yuga usually gets his exercise every morning.
Dependent clause is a clause that contains subordinator + subject + verb (+ complement). It does not express complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence by itself.
Examples:
a. ….although Kezi usually drinks a glass of milk everyday…
b. ….although Yuga usually gets his exercise every morning…
Simple sentence is one independent clause.
Examples:
a. Kezi enjoys training exercise with Yuga every morning.
b. Yuga enjoys making Kezi mad with everyday.
Compound sentence is two or more independent clause joined together.
Examples:
a. Kezi enjoys exercising with Yuga, but Yuga enjoys making Kezi mad.
b. Kezi drinks a glass of milk; Yuga gets his exercises.
A sentence with format: independent clause + coordinator + independent clause. The coordinators are: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
Examples:
a. Kezi drinks a glass of milk, and Yuga gets his exercise.
b. Kezi drinks a glass of milk, or Kezi drinks an orange juice.
A sentence with format: independent clause; + conjunctive adverb, + independent clause. The conjunctive adverbs are:
besides, furthermore, moreover, also, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, otherwise, accordingly, consequently, hence, therefore, thus.
Examples:
a. Yuga always making Kezi mad; however, he loves her so much.
b. Kezi must accepting Yuga that always make her made; otherwise, she won’t get trained from Yuga.
A sentence with format: independent clause; independent clause. It possible only when the two independent clauses are closely related in meaning.
Examples:
a. Kezi studies Russian literature; Yuga studies technical machine.
b. Kezi drinks a glass of milk; Yuga drinks a can of soda.
It contains one independent clause, and one or more dependent clauses. More important idea is placed in the independent clause, and other is placed in the dependent clause.
Examples:
a. Kezi could not beat Yuga, although she has trained harder with him.
b. Yuga loves Kezi since they were kids until now from first meet, although it has happened twelve years ago.
A clause that begins with an adverbial subordinator such as: when, while, because, although, if, so that, etc.
Examples:
a. Although Kezi has trained harder with Yuga, she could not beat him.
b. Yuga loves Kezi so much, he always makes Kezi mad because he want to get her attention for him
A clause that begins with a relative pronoun such as: who, whom, which, whose, that, or with relative adverb such as: where, when.
Examples:
a. It is Yuga’s pendant that has been given by Kezi when both of them were kids.
b. Kezi’s best friend is Kenji, a criminal who is being looked for by polices.
A clause that has function as a noun and begins with a wh- question word, that , whether, or sometimes if. It cans either a subject, or an object. No commas.
Examples:
a. Kezi doesn’t believe that Yuga loves her from twelve years ago until now.
b. Yuga’s friends don’t believe that Kezi could changes Yuga calmer since she came to his life.
