When writing a sentence, you will have a main idea, and you may also have a subordinate idea, a clause that has less importance than the main idea. Subordinate ideas, sometimes called a subordinate clause or a dependent clause, can help you prove or establish the importance of the main idea in your sentence. Knowing how to identify a subordinate idea will help you strengthen your writing skills.
Explanation:
they were lovers for a long time
Like a starving beast, the fire consumed the forest.
There is use of figurative language here indicated by the phrase starving beast. Fire is compared to a starving beast by use of simile.
