K-12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Exclamation Mark, Dependent Clause, Gerund
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You can learn how to identify phrases and clauses, and the differences between them. This guide also includes examples and resources you can use in teaching. Every sentence is constructed of clauses and/or phrases, but sometimes it can be tricky to tell the difference between a phrase and a clause. Both phrases and clauses contain groups of two or more words and help us to make sentences, but they both have different roles. To help us understand the difference between them, we should define them both individually first. A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb. A phrase is a group of words, but it doesn"t contain a subject and a verb. A sentence can exist as a single clause, but a single phrase can"t make up a sentence. Phrases add meaning to sentences but they can"t create a sentence on their own. Removing a clause from a sentence may affect the understanding.
