review: identfying clauses

Review: Identifying Clauses

Some of the following passages are clauses, with a predicate (and usually, a subject), while others are simply phrases. See if you can spot the clauses. Remember: a phrase will not have a subject and a predicate of its own.

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1. I love to eat Montréal bagels

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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2. the big, bad wolf

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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3. rode the bus to Halifax

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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4. they were thinking about the language issue

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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5. the student considering everything written on this subject

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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6. stay on the Trans-Canada highway through British Columbia

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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7. after the morning rush hour

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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8. they hate politics

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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9. because of the coat which I bought in the West Edmonton Mall

   1. clause
   2. phrase

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10. when the train arrived at the station

    1. clause
    2. phrase

Written by David Megginson