main clause

noun

Grammar.

a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.

main clause

noun

grammar a clause that can stand alone as a sentence Compare subordinate clause

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Perhaps knowing the difference between a main clause and a dependent clause doesn’t matter so much so long as you can intuit the difference.

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And when the subject of the main clause is the dummy element it or there, the reader glides right over it, and it poses no danger of attracting a dangler.

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Most commonly it ends up there when it introduces an explanation that has been preposed in front of a main clause, as in: "Because you're mine, I walk the line."

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The objection is that the interposed phrase or clause needlessly interrupts the natural order of the main clause.

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But she repeated the main clause in her creed: "Alfred'll come back."

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main chance main course

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