Clause

Definition of clause
The word "clause" has been derived from the medieval Latin word "clause", which means the closing of a period, a termination or a conclusion. In grammar, a clause is a combination of words within a sentence that is made up of a subject and a predicate.

A clause can be an independent clause, or it can be a dependent clause within another sentence. For example, Virginia Woolf combines an independent clause and two dependents in the following sentence: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” (A room of her own, by Virginia Woolf)

Types of clause
There are four Clause types:

Independent clause
An independent clause is also known as the "main clause", because it contains enough information to be independent. An independent clause could, in effect, be considered a grammatically complete sentence. An independent clause contains a subject which allows readers to know what the sentence is about, as well as a verb that informs readers what the subject is doing or will do.

Writers can connect two or more clauses by using coordinate conjunctions, to make a sentence For example, in the sentence, "This cat likes breadcrumbs", the subject is the "cat", and the verb is "like" making this clause a complete thought. Clause
A dependent clause is also known as a “subordinate clause”. A dependent clause, as the name suggests, cannot stand alone because it does not have all of the information necessary to form a complete sentence. Therefore an independent clause must be attached to it. A dependent clause uses words such as "because", "before", "after", "since", "though", "though", and "around".

Example: "Because my cat likes it when the delivery man feeds its breadcrumbs, it doesn't irritate the delivery man."

Relative clause
A relative clause begins with a relative pronoun like "whom", "who", "whose", "which" "why", " where "or" when ". A relative clause describes a noun and combines that noun with the main clause to express a complete idea. For example in the sentence "My cat who likes breadcrumbs is a black cat", the sentence "Who likes breadcrumbs," contains the relative pronoun "who".

For another example in the sentence "My cousin is employed at Walmart, where he works Enthusiasm works "," wo "is the relative adverb in the clause" where he works with enthusiasm ".

Nomenklausel
A noun clause is also known as a“ noun clause. ”A noun clause acts as a noun, but can also be a subject, object or supplement within A noun clause is almost similar to a relative clause, except that a noun clause acts as the noun of the sentence, while the relative clause derives its meaning from the noun.

Example: "The difference between how you remember and what you remember is your own personal matter."

Examples of clauses in literature
Example # 1: Animal farm (by George Orwell)
“All animals are the same, but some animals are more equal than others. ”

Along these lines, Orwell has used two independent clauses. Both clauses have a subject and a predicate. He has combined two clauses with the conjunction “but”, so this is a compound sentence.

Example # 2: Oh, what a paradise it is! It seems (by John Cheever)
"The thought of the stars contributed to the power of his feeling. What touched him was a sense of those worlds around us, our yet imperfect knowledge of their nature, our sense that they possess some grain from our past and from our lives to come. ”

Here, Cheever has used the substantive clause “what moved it.” This noun clause works like a noun to describe another noun: “a sense of those worlds.”

Example # 3: The rainbow (by D. Lawrence)
“She had many acquaintances, but no friends. Very few people she met mattered to her. They seemed to be part of a herd that was indistinguishable. ”

In this example a relative clause (“ whom she met ”) is used, while a relative pronoun (“ whom ”) further describes another pronoun (“ she ”). However, this clause depends on the noun “people”.

Example 4: God in Search of Man (by Abraham Joshua Heschel)
“When I was young, I admired intelligent people. As I get older, I admire kind people. “

In this sentence the author has used two dependent clauses (underlined), which he combined with independent clauses to complete his considerations.

Function
A clause is a section of a sentence that has its own meaning and value.Clauses add cohesion to a sentence by putting together different parts of a sentence.
Antonym Collective Noun