All the sentences is made up of one or more clauses. A group of words containing subject and verb phrase or a verb id called an clause. Independent clauses can express theirs idea independently but, a dependent clause that is also known as subordinate clause cannot do so. In other words the sentence which cannot be stand by itself is called as Dependent clause. Thus a dependent or the subordinate clause should be combined with one or more independent clauses to form an sentence. These Dependent clauses can function either as adjective clauses, noun clauses, or adverb clauses in a sentence.
