Last week’s column that discussed the use of comas, semi and full colons, and mentioned dependent and independent clauses in passing, elicited an email response from a reader who sought to know ...

An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a complete thought. The dog barked. A dependent clause cannot stand alone even if it contains a subject ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

The dependent variable, in this case, would be the test scores of the students. As the researcher following the scientific method, you would manipulate the independent variable (the studying ...

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 ...

and complex close complex sentenceA sentence that contains a main (independent) clause and one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses which add extra detail or information to the main clause..

This time, it's the reference word "who" that serves as the subject of the dependent clause and as the object of the verb ...

and complex close complex sentenceA sentence that contains a main (independent) clause and one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses which add extra detail or information to the main clause..