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what is a clause ?

Clauses are units of grammar that contain at least one predicate (verb) and a subject. A clause, therefore, contains a single verb group.A clause is different than a phrase. A clause is a group of words with a verb and a subject.

Instances of the same can be seen in italics in the following sentences:

  • He has a chainwhich is made of gold.

  • The train had left by the time they reached.

  • I belong to afamily which has fifteen members.

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 A clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition  A typical clause consists of a subject and a predicate

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 A clause is a part of a sentence. Unlike the Phrase, it can be used independently sometimes. There are two types of clauses

INDEPENDENT CLAUSE

DEPENDENT CLAUSE

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a clause is a part of the sentence which has both a subject and the verb.Aclauseis the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition.There are two types of clauses

INDEPENDENT CLAUSE

DEPENDENT CLAUSE

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Ingrammar, aclauseis the smallest grammatical unit that can express a completeproposition.[1]A typical clause consists of asubjectand apredicate,[2]where the predicate is typically averb phrase averbtogether with anyobjectsand other modifiers. However the subject is sometimes not expressed; this is often the case innull-subject languagesif the subject is retrievable from context, but it also occurs in certain cases in other languages such asEnglish(as inimperativesentences andnon-finite clauses).

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