Transcript More and more Clauses

Clauses
A grammar lesson starring Bruce
Lee
See the claw marks on
my six-pack? You’d
think a bear did it. Nope.
It was Chuck Norris.
What is a clause?!
•
A group of words with a subject and a
verb
•
There are 2 kinds of them:
1.Independent
2.Dependent
The only thing me and
Santa Clause have in
common is a thick beard.
And… uh… this hat.
The Independent Clause (IC)
• A thought that contains a subject and a
verb, and one that contains a complete
thought.
• It can always stand alone as a
sentence.
Example: Bruce Lee could eat Chuck
Norris for breakfast.
The Dependent Clause (DC)
• There is only one difference between
Independent and Dependent clauses!
• Dependent Clauses always have a marker
word that makes them sound like incomplete
sentences
Example:
unless Bruce had already eaten breakfast for
the day.
• Notice how it can’t be its own sentence
because of the word unless?
Other Dependent Marker Words
• These words also mark a clause as
dependent:
– after, although, as, as if, because, before,
even if, even though, if, in order to, since,
though, unless, until, whatever, when,
whenever, whether, and while
Examples:
– Although Chuck has a better name.
– Before Bruce decided to whoop Chuck
once and for all.
Clause combinations: DC , IC.
• If a dependent clause comes first and an
independent clause comes after it…
You need a comma!
Examples:
• When I watched them fight
• Until I see it for myself
Lee beat Chuck Norris.
,
,
I was in awe.
I’ll never believe that Bruce
Clause Combinations: IC DC.
• However, if dependent clause comes
after the independent clause…
You don’t need a comma!
Examples:
• I was in awe when I watched them fight.
• I’ll never believe that Bruce Lee beat Chuck Norris
until I see it for myself.
Showdown!!!!!
But what happens when I connect
two independent clauses?
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You have 3 options when you connect 2 ICs:
1. Use a semi-colon.
2. Use a period and make it two sentences
instead.
3. Use a comma with a BOAS Conjunction.
Um… a what?
Conjunctions
There is no theory of
BOAS Conjunctions
evolution; there is just a
list of creatures Chuck
• BUT
Norris has allowed to live.
• OR
• AND
• SO
Examples—Write these next to the 3 rules
that they go with:
1. Chuck is out of luck I would even bet a
buck.
2. Chuck is out of luck I would even bet a
buck.
3. Chuck is out of luck, BUT I would not bet a
buck
;
.
Who will win?!
VS!
R.I.P. Chuck
Chuck Norris
1940 - 2012
Common Error #1: Comma Splice
What is wrong with the following sentence?
I’m sick of snow it’s too cold.
,
As we know, you need the word “and” or a
semicolon. Otherwise it’s called a
comma splice, and it’s evil.
This fish spliced a
comma, now I’m
eating its guts.
Common Error #2: Run-on Sentences!
What’s wrong with the following
sentence?
I’m sick of snow and it’s too cold to
go sledding but I want to anyway.
,
,
You can’t use more than one
[comma+conunction] in a row! (Break
it into 2 sentences)
This (above) is called a
run-on sentence.
Don’t do it, or I’ll keep
drinking this turtles
blood!!
Correct the following paragraph:
Whenever the boy eats carrots his
eyesight improves dramatically. The boy
normally fails to eat fruits and vegetables,
and his digestive system is damaged, but
he is still alive. The boy’s friends laugh at
him, his friends are mean people, they are
bullies. He will soon extract his revenge
when he receives Lasik surgery.