dependent clauses create fragments. An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own. It consists of a subject (e.g. “The dog”) and a predicate (e.g. “barked”). Ex: The ...

You can often identify a dependent clause by a “dependent marker word”— a word or phrase which implies there is more to the sentence (e.g. “when”). When the dog barked. The example of an independent ...

For example, “Jesus wept, he couldn’t help himself after learning that Lazarus, his friend, had died”. Dependent clauses, on the other hand, are groups of words that contain subjects and ...

A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example ...