Toefl exam Essentials

WHAT IS A CLAUSE?
Like sentences, clauses are groups of words that have a subject
and a predicate. Clauses may be independent or dependent. An
independent clause stands alone and expresses a complete idea
as in this example: Ximena walked on the grass. When a sentence
has more than one independent clause, it is called a compound
sentence. In compound sentences, independent clauses are joined
by a connecting word or conjunction (and, but, or, for, nor, so, or
yet). In the following example, the independent clauses are under-
lined: Ximena walked on the grass, but she didn’t get her new shoes
wet.
A dependent clause does not express a complete thought:
though it was wet. When a dependent clause stands alone, it is called
a sentence fragment. To make a complete thought, a dependent

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