This document provides information about subordinate clauses and sentence structure. It defines subordinate clauses as clauses that cannot stand alone as a sentence and lists common connectors used to introduce subordinate clauses. It also defines sentence fragments as sentences missing a subject or verb and run-on sentences as sentences without a coordinating conjunction connecting two independent clauses. Finally, it mentions a self-checklist for evaluating sentence structure.
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1. This is called subordinate, because they cannot stand alone as a sentence without the Sentence 1 on the left.Connectors for subordinate clauseAfter, although, as, as if, because, before, even though, how, if, in order that, rather than, since, so that, than, that, though, unless, until, when, where, whether, which, while, who, whom, whyConnectors: FANBOYSFor, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
2. If either a subject or a verb is missing, it’s SENTENCE FRAGMENTSIf there is no CONNECTORS (coordinating conjunction), it’s RUN-ON Sentences