Grammatical clause that can be a sentence on its own.
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Examples for "main clause "
Examples for "main clause "
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 ;
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.
6 To each of the following independent clauses , join an adverb clause, and so make complex sentences.
7 + Independent Clauses + expressing thoughts one of which is an +inference+ from the other.
8 +Oral Analysis+.-Thisis a compound sentence because it is made up of independent clauses .
9 + Independent Clauses + joined in the sentence +without a conjunction+.
10 + Independent Clauses + in the +same line+ of thought.
11 This leaves room for any number of subordinate clauses in a compound sentence: the requirement is simply that it have at least two independent clauses .
12 + Independent Clauses + expressing thoughts in +contrast.+
13 + Independent Clauses + expressing thoughts in +alternation+.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for independent clause