Learning about sentences, clauses, and phrases

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Learning about sentences, clauses, and phrases
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Write Clauses

• A clause is a group of words with its own subject
  and verb. There are two kinds of clauses.
• An independent (main) clause is the heart of a
  sentence all sentences must contain at least
  one. An independent clause can stand alone as a
  sentence because it expresses a complete idea.

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Independent clauses

• The thunder boomed.
• The waiter is polite.
• Each of these independent clauses has a subject
  thunder, waiter.
• Each has a verb boomed, is.
• Each expresses a complete thought.
• Therefore, each is a sentence.

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AVOID FUSED SENTENCES

• A fused sentence , also called a run-on sentence,
  joins two independent (main) clauses without a
  conjunction and/or proper punctuation.
• A fused sentence combines two complete sentences
  without indicating where one stops and the other
  begins.

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• Fused Chefs cook waiters serve.
• Correct Chefs cook waiters serve.
• Fused The jury discussed the case carefully they
  reviewed each piece of evidence.
• Correct The jury discussed the case carefully.
  They reviewed each piece of evidence.

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Reference

• The Simon And Schuster, Short Prose Reader, Third
  Edition.