This tutorial focuses on the simple sentence: one thought, one clause. It gives examples of simple declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. Real Player is required.

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to avoid comma splices when working with independent and subordinate clauses. [6:42]

An independent clause is a sentence that has a subject and a verb and requires no extra information to understand. Dependent clauses, which start with subordinating conjunctions such as 'while,' 'that,' or 'unless,' give background...

A phrase is any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech, like a noun phrase ("my brother Stu"), an adjectival phrase ("in a different shade of blue"), or an adverbial phrase ("with elegance and tact"). A clause is any noun...

This lesson introduces clauses and discusses how to recognize them.