Main & Subordinate Clauses

a grammar ppt.

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Main and subordinate clauses

MainClauses

and

SubordinateClauses

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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
I paid the driver
when I got on the bus
Lisa is revising for her exams
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by the time the bus had left

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Main and subordinate clauses
I paid the driver when I got on the bus.

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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make one up of your own:
Eat at Smoky Joe’s
unless it is open.
because the food is great.
although the cat is asleep.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Eat at Smoky Joe’s because the food is great.

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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make one up of your own:
Because it was raining,
until I had put on my hat
while I was putting on my hat
I took my umbrella with me
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Main and subordinate clauses
Because it was raining, I took my umbrella
with me.

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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
Since the doorbell was
broken,
the postman knocked on the
door.
when he went around to the
back door.
it looked like warm weather.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Since the doorbell was broken, the postman
knocked on the door.

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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
which reminded them
so much of home.
Although he is over fifty
Even if the train was on time
They stared at the pictures
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They stared at the pictures which reminded
them so much of home.

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Main and subordinate clauses
Choose the correct main or subordinate clause to complete
the sentence then make up one of your own:
Before opening the letter,
since it was addressed to her.
Sherlock Holmes studied the
envelope carefully.
just as Mike reached the door.
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Main and subordinate clauses
Before opening the letter, Sherlock Holmes
studied the envelope carefully.