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ACTIVITY 3.5
E How english Works:
H W dependent and Independent Clauses
Learning Targets
• Combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between and join ideas.
• Write short literary and informational texts (e.g., an argument for protecting the rainforests)
collaboratively (e.g., with peers) and independently.
Dependent and Independent clauses
“Dogs Make Us Human” is an autobiography written in the first-person point of view. The narrator is the author, telling about her work with animal behavior. The narrator joins dependent and independent clauses to support the central idea.
In Activity 2.13, you learned about proper sentence construction. In this activity, you will identify ways that authors combine independent clauses with dependent clauses to create complex sentences.
Language Resources: Dependent and Independent clauses
An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence and express a complete thought. A dependent clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence.
Dependent clause
Independent clause
complex sentence
that Aunt Kim gave us
The pear tree grows.
The pear tree that Aunt Kim gave us grows well.
When the dog was on its way home
The dog got lost on its way home.
Because she ran
Her heart was beating fast.
Skim through “Dogs Make Us Human” looking for sentences that combine dependent and independent clauses. Write three examples in the chart and identify the dependent and independent clause in each.
sentence
Dependent clause
Independent clause
Now dogs still need people.
Now dogs still need
Now dogs still need people.
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