Sentences are build by clauses. These clauses may be independent clauses or dependent clauses.
<span>Independent clauses are those that can stand on their own. Whereas, dependent clauses can not. </span>
<span>Dependent clauses are used to make independent clauses more interesting or complete. There must be an independent clause for a dependent clause to be present. </span>
I need to identify independent clause to properly define the use of dependent clause.
An independent clause has three components: subject, an action or predicate, express complete thought. An independent clause can simply be a subject and a verb. Ex: She sleeps.
A dependent clause has a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought. Its presence in a sentence is made known when it is preceded by a marker word or conjunction.
Marker words - before, after, because, since, in order to, although, though, whenever, wherever, whether, while, even though, even if
conjunction - and, or, nor, but, yet.
A dependent clause must be joined to an independent clause to avoid becoming a fragment.
<span>Example: Because I lied. - fragment </span> Because I lied, My mom got angry. - Correct Sentence
My mom got angry - independent clause <span>Because I lied - dependent clause - complete thought was express when it was attached to the independent clause</span>
Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but Aphrodite did not enter into this union of her own volition. She and Ares conceived Harmonia, who eventually married Herodotus. She was the mother of Hermaphroditus by Hermes. Aphrodite and her son Eros (Cupid) teamed up to cause Zeus to fall in love with a human named Europa.
The type of figurative language that is used in the sentence from George Orwell's novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things in an implied way. In this line, the public is compared to a swine and advertising is compared to the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
