A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
Synonyms
Examples for "independent clause "
Examples for "independent clause "
1 There is no independent clause or sentence which prohibits the States from exercising it.
2 The adverb clause may stand before the independent clause , between the parts of it, or after it.
3 Of an independent clause .
4 The icebergs floated down, cooling the air for miles around, ( Independent clause . )
5 Sentences made up of independent clauses we call +Compound Sentences.
1 It consists in a long string of subordinate clauses and parenthetical phrases - but there is no main clause and no periods.
2 So, if the phrase is essential to the meaning of the sentence, it's attached to the main clause with that, and no comma.
3 It sounds like a proposition of Euclid with the main clauses omitted.
4 On the 12th the capitulation was drawn up, of which the main clauses were:
5 The hander declaration has three main clauses ;
6 . And in this register the words were practically complete in themselves and didn't need an explanatory main clause to follow.
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