Relating Ideas in a Sentence
Clauses
A clause contains both a subject and a verb. There are a variety of clause types.
These development-related projects, which have been structured by the WTO, will end up stalling local development."
There are thousands of stakeholders who lost their shirts due to the toxic assets on our books.
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:
There are many celebrated corporate practices in this company.
--------There are a number of specific causes for the catastrophe.
Dependent Clause
A dependent clause is not a complete sentence and must be used together with an independent clause.
Example:
when the database was breached
who have committed crimes against humanity in Rwanda
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 a number of staffing companies that we have outsourced these decisions to over the last decade.
There are many de-escalation techniques listed in this manual that have been tested in therapeutic sessions.