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Phrases vs. Clauses
Grammar
English 2Slide2
Focus Questions:
What are phrases, clauses, and sentences?
How are they similar? How are they different? Slide3
Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7RL9gtBIt4
Watch the video
Take notes on your Cornell Notes page
Then, we will review the informationSlide4
Sentence
Must contain a subject and a verb
Must be a complete thought
EXAMPLES:
The dog is sick.
Joe left the pantry door open and Rover, the dog, ate all of the snacks we bought for our road trip to Galveston.
If Joe had remembered to close that door, there wouldn’t be multi-colored dog puke all over the kitchen.
Mom is pissed. Slide5
Phrase
Adds description, information, or detail
Must be a part of a sentence
Can have a subject or a verb, but NOT both
EXAMPLES:
the cat with no tail
after summer vacation
careening over the side of the cliff Slide6
Clause
Contains a subject and a verb
There are 2 types of clauses:
Independent
Dependent
Robot Love story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTg3uXIzuOM
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Independent & Dependent Clauses
Begins with a subordinating conjunction
Contains a subject & verb
Not a complete thought – must be attached to an independent clause
Contains a subject & verb
A complete thought – can stand alone as a complete sentence
Dependent Clause
Independent ClauseSlide8
Independent & Dependent Clauses
After she witnessed the car accident
,
Yuki told the police everything she saw.
The woman driving the convertible was at fault
because she was looking at her phone instead of the road.
Luckily no one was hurt.
The red clauses are dependent.
The black underlined clauses are independent. Slide9
BASE Jumping articleSlide10
BASE Jump: Dubai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4qsWnjsNU
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Imitation
The sentence below is the opening to a
New York Times
article about a famous BASE jumper:
A minute before he died,
Herve
le
Gallou
stood at the edge of a cliff at
Obiou
, in the French Alps, with acres of thin air before him. Slide12
Breakdown of the sentence:
A minute before he died
,
Herve
le
Gallou
stood
at the edge of a cliff at
Obiou
,
in the French Alps
,
with acres of thin air before him.
Dependent clause
Independent clause
Phrase
Phrase
Phrase Slide13
Write your own sentence that imitates the structure:
example
A minute before he died
,
Herve
le
Gallou
stood at the edge of a cliff at
Obiou
,
in the French Alps
,
with acres of thin air before him.
Just before she spoke,
Mia waited in line at the food truck,
in the middle of East Austin,
with a sea of hipsters surrounding her.Slide14
Write your own sentence