ABSTRACT
Sentences are constructed of clauses. A clause Is a group of words containing a verb. Clauses are of two types: main and subordinate. Main clauses contain a subject and a finite verb (which agrees In number and person with the subject, and which is in a past, present or future tense). Stringing together a series of main clauses with no variety isn't going to impress the examiner much. You will want to be able to give additional information about nouns or pronouns in your main clauses, and that's the job of subordinate clauses. Subordinate clauses cannot stand alone, but are dependent on a main clause and have a special word order (see Day 23). Relative clauses are a type of subordinate clause.
