Relating Ideas in a Sentence
Clauses
A clause contains both a subject and a verb. There are a variety of clause types.
Student Development and Activities, which is the most popular student group on campus, is committed to helping students enhance their leadership skills."
These development-related projects, which have been structured by the WTO, will end up stalling local development."
That is the organization which abandoned standard lobbying techniques.
Independent Clause
An independent clause is a complete sentence when used alone. It contains the subject and the verb of a sentence. Independent clauses are also named 'main clauses'.
Example:
We are the leading provider of sponsorship consulting.
There are many celebrated corporate practices in this company.
--------Dependent Clause
A dependent clause is not a complete sentence and must be used together with an independent clause.
Example:
who have committed crimes against humanity in Rwanda
staff communication systems running on windows computer systems.
Relative Clause
A relative clause modifies a noun or noun phrase and is dependent. Relative clauses provide additional information which identifies or describes a noun. Relative clauses are also referred to as adjective clauses.
Example:
There are many de-escalation techniques listed in this manual that have been tested in therapeutic sessions.
There are thousands of stakeholders who lost their shirts due to the toxic assets on our books.