An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a complete sentence. For example: Jenny ran the race well. They can also be joined to make longer sentences. Most mistakes occur when ...

Many sentences may contain two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses joined with appropriate conjunctions and/or punctuation. Combining two or more sentences without appropriate ...

You can often identify a dependent clause by a “dependent marker word”— a word or phrase which implies there is more to the sentence (e.g. “when”). When the dog barked. The example of an independent ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

An error known as a comma splice (or comma fault) results when a comma is mistakenly placed between two independent clauses that are not joined by a coordinating ...