People who never felt like I do are making fun of me.

In your bellwork section, please copy this sentence and underline and label any subordinate

(dependent) clauses you can find.

Who said this, in Shakespearean language, in Romeo and Juliet?

People who never felt like I do are making fun of me.

Please copy these two sentences and underline any subordinate (or dependent) clauses you can find.

Who said this, in Shakespearean language, yesterday?

People who never felt like I do are making fun of me.

Unless you have loved someone, you can’t know how I feel.

Please copy these two sentences and underline any subordinate (or dependent) clauses you can find.

Who said this, in Shakespearean language, yesterday?

My dog barks when the mailman delivers our mail, but he only bites the Fed Ex guy, who looks kind of scary.

In your bellwork section, please copy this sentence, and then underline two subordinate clauses. Draw arrows to the words

they describe and label them as ADJ and ADV.

The Clause a group of words that contains a verb

and its subject.

TWO MAIN TYPES:

INDEPENDENT DEPENDENT

ClausesA clause is a group of words that contains a verb and its

subject. Subordinate Clause

A clause that is dependent and cannot stand by

itself as a sentence.

Example:When the African sun

gets hot

Independent Clause

A clause that expresses a

complete thought and can stand by

itself as a sentence.Example:

She photographed lions and giraffes.

ClausesA clause is a group of words that contains a verb and its

subject. Subordinate Clause NOT a complete

thought.

Independent ClauseExpresses a

complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence.

There are THREE types of subordinate clauses

Noun

Adjective (What do these describe?)

Adverb (What do these describe?)

Noun Clauses

• Act like nouns…

• …so they can be SUBJECT, DO, IO, PN, or OP.

• …so they ARE grammatically necessary in the sentence.

• Try replacing them with “SOMETHING.”

Who I love is not as important as how I feel.

Who I love is not as important as how I feel.

Adverbs describe…

The dog barks everyday.

VERBS (or other describing words)

The dog barked when the mailman walked by.

When the mailman walked by, the dog barked.

Adjectives describe…

The brown dog barks loudly.

Nouns or pronouns

The dog that lives next door to me barks loudly.

The O’Connors, who are my neighbors, have a dog that barks constantly.

Remember that clauses DO have real (a.k.a. conjugated) verbs in

them. Phrases do not.

The dog barked after dinner. (phrase-prepositional)

To scare the mailman, the dog barked angrily.

(phrase-infinitive)

The dog barked when the mail man walked by. (clause)