Question

In at least fifty words, explain how the use of various clause types can improve writing.

Answer 1

Grammar clauses can be used alone or in combination with other clauses or sentences. Words and phrases are the parts of language that make up clauses. Clauses can be used to improve both writing and reading. if you can't distinguish between a phrase, a dependent clause, and an independent clause, you will have trouble with writing fragments instead of sentences. Sentence fragments are confusing for readers, because they do not make sense they are not full sentences. Sentence fragments don't contain any usable information and no subject or anything that would help a reader follow what the writer is trying to say. Sentence fragments look like sentences but they are not. So knowing how to use clauses helps to make writing more understandable.

Answer 2

A clause is a group of related words containing a subject and a verb A clause can be usefully distinguished from a phrase, which is a group of related words that does not contain a subject-verb relationship, such as "in the morning" or "running down the street" or "having grown used to this harassment." A review of the different kinds of phrasesmight be helpful.
Learning the various terms used to define and classify clauses can be a vocabulary lesson in itself. This digital handout categorizes clauses into independent and dependent clauses. This simply means that some clauses can stand by themselves, as separate sentences, and some can't. Another term for dependent clause is subordinate clause: this means that the clause is subordinate to another element (the independent clause) and depends on that other element for its meaning. The subordinate clause is created by a subordinating conjunction or dependent word.