PHRASE vs. CLAUSE - What's the Difference? - English Grammar - Independent and Dependent Clauses

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  • What is the difference between a phrase and a clause? Watch this video and find out. Also see - MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH & HOW TO AVOID THEM: • 50 MOST COMMON MISTAKE...
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    Many people are confused about the
    difference between phrases and clauses.
    Are these different grammar items or are
    they just two names for the same thing?
    That's what we're going to talk about in
    this video.
    Now before we start just remember: if you have any questions at
    all you just have to ask me in the
    comments section below and I will talk
    to you there.
    So in this lesson we're going to learn
    the difference between phrases and
    clauses. But first let's talk about how
    phrases and clauses are similar.
    They're similar in this way: both of
    these refer two groups of words that are
    meaningful. Look at these examples: near
    my home or Dexter won the bicycle race
    You can see that these are meaningful
    so one of them is afraid and the other
    is a clause
    OK so what's the difference between them? Well
    the difference is this: a clause is a
    group of words with a subject-verb
    combination so Dexter won the bicycle
    race is a clause because it has a
    subject - Dexter and a verb - won is the past
    tense of win so this is a clause. A
    phrase is a group of words without a
    subject-verb combination. So near my home
    is a phrase because there's no subject
    verb combination
    It's very simple but keep this important
    difference in mind - a clause has a
    subject-verb combination and a phrase
    does not. So now let me show you some
    more examples so that you can learn how
    to easily identify phrases and clauses
    Alright all the words that you see on
    the screen are phrases. You'll notice
    that in all of these there's no subject
    verb combination and these examples also
    show the most common types of phrases
    For example my two wonderful dogs is
    a phrase focusing on the noun dogs and
    the phrase the tallest building in the
    world focuses on the noun building so we
    say that these are noun phrases.
    What about couldn't go and will be
    working? Can you guess what type of
    phrases these are? These are
    verb phrases because they only have verbs
    in them. All of these words are verbs
    similarly we have the adjective phrases
    very friendly and afraid of the dark
    we say that these are adjective phrases
    because the focus is on friendly and
    afraid - the other words in these phrases
    are only helping the main words and the
    main words are adjectives. Really fast
    and much quicker are adverb phrases
    because the adverbs fast and quicker are
    the focus of these phrases and finally
    what about near the post office and on
    the 29th? Do you know? These are preposition
    phrases because each of these tells us
    about a place or about time using the
    prepositions near and on. These are the
    most common types of phrases that you
    will come across and once again remember
    these are phrases because they don't
    have a subject verb combination. So let's
    now look at some examples of clauses
    like I said a clause is just like a
    phrase - it's a group of words but a
    clause has a subject verb combination
    now in English there are many different
    kinds of causes but the two most
    important that you need to know about
    are independent and dependent clauses
    let's start with the independent clause
    this is simply a clause that can stand
    alone as a sentence. For example He ate
    dinner
    this is a clause because it has a
    subject - he - and a verb - ate - past tense of
    eat and it's independent because it can
    be a sentence on its own. So what's a
    dependent clause then? Well it's a clause
    that is it has a subject-verb
    combination but it cannot be a sentence
    by itself. For example When James got
    home is a dependent clause - it has a
    subject - James - and a verb - got - but if you
    think about it it's not a complete
    sentence because if I said when James
    got home you will ask okay then what?
    What happened?
    So you see the sentence isn't complete
    so this is a dependent clause.

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