Letters Home from Yosemite Unit 1 Grammar Week 5 Letters Home from Yosemite

Clauses and Complex Sentences

Clauses and Complex Sentences A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb. A dependent clause begins with a word such a because or when. It cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Clause and Complex Sentences Independent Clauses can stand alone. Dependent Clause: when we saw Yosemite Independent Clause: It was a beautiful fall day.

Clauses and Complex Sentences A sentence made up of a dependent clause and an independent clause is a complex sentence. When the dependent clause comes first in the sentence, it is followed by a comma.

Examples When we saw Yosemite, it was a beautiful fall day. It was a beautiful fall day when we saw Yosemite.

Practice—Find the dependent clause. We value our national parks because they are so wild. Although people love cities, the wilderness is special.

Practice—Find the independent clause Until a law was passed, our country had no national parks. As you probably know, there are many parks today.

Dependent or Independent Clause? Since I last wrote, we’ve made big plans. After school gets out, Ted can take us camping. We’ll go to Baxter State Park because it’s really wild.

Dependent or Independent Clause? If the weather is good, we can climb Mt. Katahdin. We don’t plan our route until we’ve studied the map. Before we go, we need to decide about food.

Test Prep Grandpa told stories at night ___ we stayed up to listen. A , and C , or B and, D and In one story he had scared a ghost ____ in another he had tamed a tornado. A and C or B , and D or,

Test Prep—Independent Clause unless you want to freeze when you pack if you like hot food carry matches with you because we started late although we’re very tired we have a long way to go Since we got lost

Test Prep—Dependent clauses ___ we can’t light a fire, we’ll eat sandwiches. Or Since Before But The dog growls ___ she hears the coyotes howling. although when or but

Dependent or Independent? When school is out, we will visit my uncle Bill. Before he retired, he worked in New York City. He moved to Vermont after he bought an old farm. Although he is not a farmer, he loves life in Vermont.

Combine the sentences using the word in ( ). Lou sat in the front. He had never been in a canoe. (since) We paddled upstream. We were tired. (until) We stopped. We came to a good place for lunch. (when) The swimming was great. The water was cold. (although)