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It’s a group of words that contain a subject and a verb. They can be grouped together to form a sentence (or sometimes they can be a sentence on their own).
For example:
“She [subject] wasn’t [verb] hungry so she [subject] couldn’t finish [verb] her pasta” consists of 2 clauses:
The independant clause (the clause that can stand alone on its own) – “she wasn’t hungry”
The subordinate clause (the clause with additional information) – “so she couldn’t finish her pasta”
In this case, the word “so” acts as a subordinate conjunction that connects the 2 clauses.
You could switch these clauses around and the sentence would still make sense. Like this:
“She couldn’t finish her pasta because she wasn’t hungry”
We just switch the “so” conjunction (joining word) for “because”.
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