Practice: Clauses

In each of the following sentences, a clause is underlined. First determine whether it is an independent or dependent clause. If it is a dependent clause, then determine whether it is subordinate or relative.

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1. The software package is currently available only for Mac OS X and Linux, but the company says it hopes to have a Windows version out next month.

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C.

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2. “Whoever said this wouldn’t work should come down here now,” Brosnahan said.

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B.
C.

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3. Although the weather was not ideal for soccer, the game proved one of the season’s best for the Seattle Sounders.

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B.
C.

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4. He said it was the strangest car that he had ever seen.

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B.
C.

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5. The two were led away in handcuffs after the hearing ended.

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B.
C.

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