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A sentence can contain a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. A subordinate clause is a group of words containing a subject and verb and forming part of a sentence:

  • We knew that his mother was at home.
  • He told me his secret because he trusted me.
  • They did better at the exams  than we did.
  • This is the vase that I bought in China.


In the examples above the subordinate clauses are in bold type.

It is not necessary for you to make a detailed study of clauses or even to be able to recognize the different kinds of clause, but it is necessary to learn to know which is the main verb of a sentence.

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