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The concept:

Independent and dependent clauses are two different types of sentences. One is a full complete thought all on its own, while the other is not. Independent clauses are the complete ones. It is a sentence that makes sense on its own. A dependent clause is the opposite. It is an incomplete sentence that needs more words to make it a complete thought. These dependent clauses become dependent when a marker word (subortinating cunjunction)is added. A few examples of marker words are although, unless, if, when, and many more. Let’s say we have a sentence : She went to the store. This is Independent because you are able to say it alone and it will still make sense, but if we add a marker word like, when : When she went to the store she bought cookies. Do you see that we needed to add more onto the sentence to  make it a complete thought? If we just left the sentence like this : When she went to the store. It would not make sense. Another little trick is if you just want to connect two independent clauses without changing them to dependent you can add a coordinating cunjunction. These words include FANBOY. An example of this is : She loves cookies but she wants icecream. This is still completely independent because even if we took the word “but” away, both of the smaller clauses would make sense on their own.

Quiz Questions:

1. What is an independent clause?

a) complete thought          b) incomplete thought

c) full sentence                   d) a and c

2.  What is a dependent clause?

a) a word made up of more than four letters  b) an incomplete sentence

c) a person who broke their leg     d) a sentence that has a marker word

3.   What is a marker word?

a) a verb                    b) a noun

c)  the word the dependent clauses depend on    d) all of the above

4.   Is this sentence dependent or independent? : He has a dog but she has a cat.

a) dependent             b) independent

Quiz Answers:

1. d)
2. d)
3. c)
4. b)