Example sentences for: clauses

How can you use “clauses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (These clauses are similar to the equal protection provision of the U.S.

  • Sentences which use such clauses are softer, more pliant.

  • Such conjunctions, when placed in the beginning or middle of a sentence, form clauses that hang suspended, awaiting definition from their relationship with what follows.

  • At St. Paul's School we are convinced that the study of grammer need not be an arcane, in vacuo ex- ericise; and all of our students explore the structure of English, from the parts of speech to the phrases and clauses, ultimately applying their knowledge to usage, punctuation, and sentence creation.

  • Bruce, it turned out, was the author of the 15-word super-sentence--a creation that not only contains an elliptical adverb clause of comparison, “than I [practised],” and a hidden noun clause, “[that] he stank,” but compacts the four phrases into the subordinate part and the three clauses into the main part.


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