CMN 279 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dependent Clause, Independent Clause, Relative Pronoun
6 Feb 2017
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Cmn279 chapter 4: business style: sentence and paragraphs. A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb: there are two types: Independent clauses are grammatically complete and can stand on their own as sentences: Dependent clauses are grammatically incomplete and reliant on independent clauses for their meaning. Dependent clauses begin in one of two ways: With a dependent marker (a word such as if, as, because, since, or although) or with a relative pronoun (that, which, or who) Simple sentences are straightforward and emphatic: the shorter they are, the more emphasis they have, although simple sentences may have up to twenty words, there are two potential drawbacks. Without the connecting words typical of other sentence types, a simple sentence may not fully show relationships among ideas. A string of simple sentences can he flat and monotonous.
