DEPENDENT

AND
INDEPENDENT
CLAUSES
 IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE
INDEPENDENT It can stand alone and be easily

CLAUSE understood.

Examples: I research a lot.

He talks on the phone.
ALMOST A COMPLETE SENCTENCE

It cannot stand alone and needs another clause

to be understood.
DEPENDENT
Examples: Before I go to sleep
CLAUSE
While I read online
 Which one is the dependent
clause?

Running and biking

Because I can't wait are my favorite
for the bus activities.
 Which one is the independent
clause?

Cheetahs are the When your mom

fastest land arrives
animals.
 Which one is the dependent
clause?

The teacher taught

Since it was raining me how to read.
 Which one is the independent
clause?

Because it was That girl practices

boring baseball every day.
 Guessing Game

NOUN
CLAUSES
 What are they?

A noun clause is a dependent

A noun is a word used to
clause that acts as a noun.
identify any of a class of
It can appear anywhere in a
people, places, or things.
sentence when a noun is used as
a: subject, object, or complement.
 What does a noun clause start with?

How What Whom Whoever

That Whatever Whomever Why
When Whether Who Whichever
Which Where
 Subject to the sentence

The subject is the person or thing that does the

main action in a sentence. The subject usually
comes at the beginning of a sentence.

Example: Whoever wins the race gets the trophy.

Whichever you pick is fine with me.
 Direct object

You can use a noun clause in place of a direct

object. The object usually comes after your verb.

For example: He said that he was excited.

 Indirect object

Besides a direct object, a sentence can also have

an indirect object. This is usually the person the
verb talks about. A noun clause can be used here
too.
For Example: I will give the prize to whomever
arrives first at the finish line.
 Subject complement

A subject complement is usually put after the verb and changes the
subject. (nouns that follow linking verbs)

Example: Music is the thing that makes me relax.

Our subject complement is the thing that makes me relax.
the thing is my subject and makes is my predicate.
 Object to the preposition

If a noun clause follows a preposition, the whole

noun clause is considered the object of the
preposition.

Example: I am not interested in whatever Alex

says.
 NC act as:

Subject of the Direct object Indirect object

sentence of a phrase of a preposition
You must choose She gives whoever
I wonder who is
which topic you visits her house a glass
afraid of water.
want. of milk and a cookie.
(Dori) (Them)
(A topic)
The underlined noun The noun clause whoever
The noun clause Which
clause acts as a single visits her house is the
topic you wants is acting
subject of the independent indirect object of the same
as the direct object of
clause. verb.
the verb choose.
 NC act as:
Object of Complement to
a preposition the subject
Josie is not interested I am who teaches
in whichever animals are here.
there. (The teacher)
(animals)
The noun clause who
The noun clause whichever
teaches here is the subject
animals are there is acting
complement of the linking
as the object of the
verb am.
preposition in.