Students will learn clauses, its uses, different clauses, practice.

2. Aminul Islam
Assistant Teacher in English
Bandarban Govt. Girls’ High
School

3. Clauses
Lesson Introducing …

5. Read the following sentences:
=>They often go to Italy because they love the food.
=> We know that Haji Mohammad Mohsin was a very
kind man.
Look! Both the sentences have a
connective word or conjunction. Now, find
the conjunctions that join two parts of the
sentences.

6. Good!
A Clause means -
a group of words that
includes a subject and
a verb, and forms a
sentence or part of a
sentence.
Again,
a clause is a subject
and a predicate
working together.

7. Example sentence-1
In the above sentence, there is one subject, ‘I’,
and one predicate, ‘took’. Since they are
working together to form a comprehensible
sentence, this sentence has one clause.

8. When there are two clauses-
The clause that is
dependent on another
clause to make a
complete sense is
called a Subordinate
or Dependent Clause.
The Principal Clause
can make a complete
sense by itself. It does
not have to depend on
any other clause.

9. Example sentence -2
The sentence contains two clauses (i) We know,
(ii) that Haji Mohammad Mohsin was a very
kind man. Of these two, the first one stands by
itself, but the latter depends on the other
clause.

10. 1. I know where he is.
2. The pen that father gave me is lost.
3. He cannot do this unless you help him.
4. Listen to what your teachers say.
5. When you have finished you lessons, you can play
games.
6. As he was kind, he used to help the poor people.
7. He woke up because he heard a sound in his room.
Now, read the sentences and find the
dependent and principal clause -

11. Again, a sentence having two
principal clauses is called a Co-
ordinate clause.
The man is poor but he is honest.
The man worked very hard and grew tired.
Examples:

12. Group
Work
1. This is the place. The man lives here.
2. He kept silent. I know the reason.
3. He says this. It is true.
4. Mohsin was sleeping. A thief entered
the room.
Combine each of the following sentences.

13. HOME WORK
Write ten sentences that have at least two clauses.