You would have written sentences like these: He came down quickly. I’ll do it tomorrow. The two underlined words are adverbs. They provide answers to important questions on time, place, manner, reason, etc., providing background information in a sentence. In…
You would’ve spoken or heard sentences like these. He can do whatever he wants. I don’t know what you mean by that. Why he never talked again will remain a mystery. If you’ve, then you’ve already had a date with…
Do you know why the second sentence takes a pair of commas but the first doesn’t, even though both look similar? Do you know why the third sentence, from a popular English daily, is incorrect without a comma? The man…
Before we get to the examples, here is a quick 101 on grammar governing such clauses. If you already know this, you can jump straight to examples. Grammar of relative clause starting with which Which-relative-clause describes a noun or noun…
There is plenty of confusion over what constitutes a coordinate clause. Let’s list few prevailing understandings with this example sentence: Tom hit the ball hard, but he couldn’t clear the fence. 1. The above sentence contains two coordinate clauses: Tom…
Reduction of a dependent clause is its shortening to a phrase to bring conciseness in writing. Since a dependent clause contains a subject-verb unit, reduction results in losing this combination. In this post, we’ll learn how noun clauses are reduced.…
Reduction of a dependent clause is its shortening to a phrase to bring conciseness in writing. Since a dependent clause contains a subject-verb unit, reduction results in losing this combination. In this post, we’ll learn how adverb clauses are reduced.…
Reduction of a dependent clause is its shortening to a phrase to bring conciseness in writing. Since a dependent clause contains a subject-verb unit, reduction results in losing this combination. In this post, we’ll dig into how relative clauses, the…
By the end of this post, you would be able to understand what is reduction of clause (and what is not) and why we reduce clauses. What is reduction of clause? Reduction of a dependent clause is its shortening to…
That-clause is a dependent (or subordinate) clause introduced by subordinating conjunction that or relative pronoun that. Functioning as all three dependent clauses (only few do that), it is the most ubiquitous clause. Hardly few sentences pass before you encounter one.…
What is a relative clause? You would have written sentences like these: My neighbor has a yellow car. The adjective yellow describes the noun car. Now, an adjective works fine for simple descriptions like color, but what if we need…
Identifying clauses, especially dependent clauses, can be challenging. Try identifying all dependent and independent clauses in these sentences. I could not complete the assignment because of a four-hour power outage. Who attended the school I did? If you go after…
