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Present

Past

Past to Present

Future

Abilities - Responsibilities

Asking Questions

Choosing the Right Phrase

Combining Verbs

Explaining Ideas

Describing Your World

Complex Ideas

Relating Ideas, People, Objects

Speaking about Objects

Wondering about Situations

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.

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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.

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