MGH Workbook Ex. 4-8 page 129
Identifying Independent and
Dependent Clauses
Some of the sentences in this exercise do not have
dependent clauses but do have participial phrases. Remember the difference
between a clause and a phrase: a
clause contains a subject and verb; a phrase is a group of words that does not
have the subject/verb pattern. Dependent clauses and phrases work as modifiers
in sentences.
- Independent
clause: two French pilots are still the subject of a search.
Dependent clause: Although they were reported missing in 1927
- Independent
clause: Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli took off two weeks before
Lindbergh.
Dependent clause: none
Participial phrase: Hoping to be
the first to travel nonstop between New York and Paris
- Independent
clause: reporters flashed the story all over the world.
Dependent clause: As they watched the takeoff
- Independent
clause: Nungesser and Coli were sighted by ships in the Atlantic
Dependent clause: none
Participial phrase: Heading west from Paris
- Independent
clause: it should have been easy to spot
Dependent clause: Because the large plane was white
- Independent
clause: people claimed to have seen the plane, called the White Bird, over
Canada and Boston
Dependent clause: As the hours crept by
- Independent
clause: Crowds gathered in New York
Dependent clause: None
Participial phrase: hoping to greet the heroic flyers.
- Independent
clause: Nungesser and Coli were declared lost.
Dependent clause: When the White Bird failed to appear
- Independent
clause: most people believed
Dependent
clause: that Nungesser and Coli crashed in the sea
Dependent clause: After an exhaustive search was abandoned
- Independent
clause: In the 1990s a researcher claimed to have found some old-fashioned
aircraft parts in a remote part of the Maine woods
Dependent clause: which he feels came from the long lost White Bird.
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