Independent and

Dependent Clause
&
Simple Sentence
By:
RAFIDATUS SHOLIHAH
IHDA SULISTIARINI
• CLAUSE

• SIMPLE
SENTENCE
 CLAUSE
• A Clause is a group of words that contains a
subject and a verb. There is two kinds:

INDEPENDENT
CLAUSE DEPENDENT
CLAUSE
 INDEPENDENT CLAUSE

• An independent clause is a clause that can

stand on its own, by itself. It does not need to
be joined to any other clauses, because it
contains all the information necessary to be a
complete sentences.
Independent clauses have three components:
• They have a subject - they tell the reader
what the sentence is about.
• They have an action or predicate - they tell
the reader what the subject is doing.
• They express a complete thought - something
happened or was said.
• Example:
• He ran. (Notice that while this sentence
only contains two words, it is still a
complete sentence because it contains a
one word subject and a one word predicate
that is also a complete thought.)
• He ran fast.
• I was late to work.
 DEPENDENT CLAUSE
• A dependent clause is a group of words that also
contains a subject and a verb, but it is not a
complete thought. Because it is not a complete
thought, a dependent clause cannot stand on its
own as a sentence
A clause can be dependent because of the presence
of a:
• Marker Word (Before, after, because, since, in
order to, although, though, whenever, wherever,
whether, while, even though, even if)
• Conjunction (And, or, nor, but, yet)
 Types of Dependent
Clause
• Dependent clauses can act as adjectives,
adverbs, or nouns.
• The Adjective Clause

• The Adverbial Clause

• The Noun Clause

 The Adjective Clause.
• Example: The car which your wife sold me
last week has broken down.
• (The dependent clause which your wife
sold me last week describes the car. It is
an adjective clause.)
 The Adverbial Clause.
• Example: He literally stitched mail
sacks until his fingers bled.
• (The dependent clause until his fingers
bled modifies the verb to stitch. It is an
adverbial clause.)
 The Noun Clause.
• Example: Whoever turned the ovens
off is keeping quiet.
• (The dependent clause Whoever turned
the ovens off is the subject of this
sentence. It is a noun clause.)
 SIMPLE SENTENCE

• A sentence with only

one independent clause (also
known as a main clause ).
• Example:
 My sister read the magazine.
subject= my sister,
verb= read,
(direct) object= the magazine
 The manager came late today.
subject= the manager,
verb= came,
adverb= late, today
 He is diligent.
subject= he (pronoun),
(linking) verb= is,
adjective= diligent
 I was doing physically exercises at this time
yesterday.
subject= I,
verb= was doing,
(direct) object= physically exercises
prepositional phrase= at this time yesterday