{"id":4128,"date":"2022-09-16T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalmaya.com\/independent-clause-definition-words-examples\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:30:54","slug":"independent-clause-definition-words-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalmaya.com\/independent-clause-definition-words-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Clause: Definition, Words & Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"
Clauses are a vital part of the English language – without clauses, there are no sentences! This article is about independent clauses, the building blocks of sentences. It will introduce and define independent clauses, explain how to form independent clauses and successfully join them together, provide many examples, and compare the difference between independent and dependent clauses. <\/p>\n
An independent clause (sometimes known as the main clause) <\/span><\/span>supports the main idea of \u200b\u200bthe sentence – this could be an action, thought, idea, state, etc. <\/span><\/span><\/strong> It is called an independent clause as it does not rely on any other parts of a sentence to make sense; it is independent. Independent clauses can even be sentences in their own right. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n An independent clause has to contain a subject<\/span><\/span><\/strong> (the focus of the sentence, this can be a person, place, object, etc.) <\/span><\/span>and a predicate<\/span><\/span><\/strong> (the part of the sentence that contains a verb or information about the subject).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n she<\/strong> (subject) + ate to apple<\/strong> (predicate).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n You will often see independent clauses that contain a subject and a verb but this doesn’t mean independent clauses are limited to containing just those. <\/span>They can also contain an object and\/or a modifier – these are optional when trying to form an independent clause.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nHow do you form an independent clause?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n