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“A clause that cannot form a sentence on its own but can be joined to a main clause to form a sentence.”
Source: Cambridge Dictionary
“Because a subordinate clause is dependent upon a main clause to be meaningful, it is also referred to as a dependent clause.”
Source: Grammarly
“Subordinate clauses will often begin with subordinating conjunctions, which are words that link dependent clauses to independent clauses, such as:
Want to help children understand subordinate clauses? This short Oxford Owl video will let them learn the difference between a clause, a subordinate clause and a relative clause.
Perfect to help with grammar homework and to prepare for the Key Stage 2 SATs test.
Find more Oxford Owl videos on its YouTube channel here.
These bright, appealing PDF grammar worksheets are an excellent way to practise and revise using subordinating conjunctions in Years 2 and 3, and are divided into five sections:
Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
Get the Year 2 version here and the Year 3 version here.
Of course, you can’t really teach subordinate clauses without the context of main clauses. So this page from The School Run has a neat summary of clauses and how they work together, with clear illustrations to emphasise examples.
Read it here.
This page from Grammar Bytes has a good list of examples with explanations as to why they are subordinate clauses, stating:
“A subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence because it does not provide a complete thought. The reader is left wondering, ‘So what happened?’”
So looking at the first example in the image above, it asks: “So what happened? Did Amy throw it down the garbage disposal or serve it on toast to her friends?” explaining that because there’s no complete thought here, it is only a fragment of a sentence.
Check out more examples here.
This classroom display pack features a set of six posters illustrating a range of subordinating conjunctions, using eye-catching images surrounded by example sentences.
Blank versions of the posters are also included, so children and teachers can add their own text suggestions.
Find this pack here.
This powerful Year 3 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on subordinating conjunctions, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.
Get it here.
This 20-page PDF has a whopping 41 questions on clauses, including subordinate clauses, for children to do at home or in school.
Print it resource here.
This homework sheet features 11 sentences for children to add subordinate clauses to.
Download this resource here.
This worksheet is divided into four sections, with 16 questions in total.
The first asks students to say whether the underlined part is a clause or a phrase. In the second they need to write out the sentence, underline the main clause and put brackets around the subordinate clause.
In the third and fourth sections they need to add a subordinate and a main clause respectively to the sentences provided.
Find this one here.
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