AQA GCSE English Language · 8700
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Revise: Punctuation for effectAn independent clause contains a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a complete sentence.
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GCSE English Language · key term
A group of words containing a subject and a verb that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
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Revise: Punctuation for effectAn independent clause contains a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a complete sentence.
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A clause that makes grammatical sense on its own and can form a complete sentence, such as ‘The door opened’.
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An independent clause can stand on its own as a complete sentence. In ‘The gate rattled’, ‘the gate’ is the subject and ‘rattled’ is the verb. The clause expresses a complete thought.
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Revise: Sentence demarcationAn independent clause can stand alone as a complete sentence. In ‘The phone rang’, the phone is the subject—the thing the sentence is about—and rang is the verb, telling us what happened.
A clause that expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence.