Dependent clauses do not express complete thoughts so they are considered incomplete sentences or fragments. You can often identify a dependent clause by a “dependent marker word”— a word or phrase ...

Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, dependent clauses create fragments. An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can ...

Many sentences may contain two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses joined with appropriate conjunctions and/or punctuation. Combining two or more sentences without appropriate ...