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What is the difference between a dependent and independent clause?It’s sometimes hard to know. Here’s a trick.
A dependent clause is like a five year old child. An independent clause is like a teenager? Why?
Well, keep reading.
“There is nothing to do. I am boring.”What’s wrong with this sentence? Do you think it’s strange? It means, “Other people think I am boring.” Maybe that is true, but usually my students don’t want to to write that.
This writing mistake can teach us how to fix a common error made by many ESL students.
This is Lesson 6 of the Paraphrase Writing e-course, the final activity in this e-course. In this lesson, you will paraphrase sentences by removing words and replacing them with their definitions. Here is an example.
This is Lesson 5 of the Paraphrase Writing e-course. In Lesson 4, you learned how to combine sentences by using conjunctions.
This is another combining sentence exercise you can use to write academic essays or English essay tests. Now you will combine sentences by using two kinds of clauses: relative clauses and appositives.