Literary Examples of Independent & Dependent Clauses (Grade 7 Analysis)

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔑 Independent Clause: A complete thought that can stand alone as a sentence. It has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete idea.
• 🔗 Dependent Clause: A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence. It also has a subject and a verb, but it begins with a subordinating conjunction (e.g., because, if, when, although) or a relative pronoun (e.g., who, which, that).
• 💡 Subordinating Conjunctions: Words that connect a dependent clause to an independent clause (e.g., after, although, as, because, before, if, since, than, though, until, when, where, while).
• 🎯 Relative Pronouns: Words that introduce a relative clause (a type of dependent clause) and refer to a noun mentioned earlier in the sentence (e.g., who, whom, which, that, whose).
• 📝 Complex Sentence: A sentence containing one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following is an example of an independent clause?
   1. Because it was raining
   2. After the game finished
   3. The dog barked loudly
   4. Although she was tired
2. Which of the following sentences contains a dependent clause?
   1. She went to the store.
   2. The sun is shining.
   3. Because he studied hard, he passed the test.
   4. Birds fly in the sky.
3. Identify the dependent clause in the following sentence: "If it rains, we will stay inside."
   1. We will stay inside
   2. If it rains
   3. It rains
   4. We will
4. Which word is commonly used to introduce a dependent clause?
   1. And
   2. But
   3. Because
   4. So
5. Which of the following is NOT a subordinating conjunction?
   1. Although
   2. When
   3. But
   4. Since
6. Which sentence is a complex sentence?
   1. I like pizza.
   2. She likes ice cream.
   3. Although it was cold, he went swimming.
   4. They went home.
7. In the sentence, "The book that I borrowed from the library is interesting," what is the dependent clause?
   1. The book is interesting
   2. That I borrowed from the library
   3. The book
   4. I borrowed