Clauses and Phrases

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• What is the subordinate clause in the following sentence?: He opened the door after hearing the doorbell ring.
• What is the subordinate clause in the following sentence?: They were laughing because the comedian said a funny joke.
• What is the subordinate clause in the following sentence?: That is the hospital where I was born.
• What is the subordinate clause in the following sentence?: He was late to school because of the snowstorm.
• What is the subordinate clause in the following sentence?: No one understands why you need experience.
• What is the subordinate clause in the following sentence?: After the teams practiced in the rainstorm, the only intact field was the soccer field.
• What is a prepositional phrase and what is a participial phrase?
• Can anyone help me with 10 original examples of compound sentences?
• What is the difference between adverb and adjective clause please help!? I'm taking my English final IB in 3 days.
• What is an example of an antecedent?
• What is the difference between a verse and stanza?
• What's the difference between verse and prose?
• Can someone please explain adjective phrases to me and possibly give some examples?
• Is the past tense for sink, sank or sunk?
• Is the verb "to learn" in the past tense?
• What is the present participle and past participle of is, am, are? How do you change "Saina is exceptional." to present perfect?
• How do you find it a participle in a sentence?
• What is the past tense of "sing"?
• When do you use a past participle as the verb of the sentence?
• What is the difference between a participle and adjective?
• What is the difference between "got" and "gotten" as the past participle of the verb "to get"?
• In the sentence: "The sun was setting when they left the beach to make camp," are the words "was setting" past participle, present participle, infinitive or past tense? Why?
• Is past participle and simple past the same? If not, why?
• What tense is always used to indicate a connection between actions that happened in the past?
• The following sentence uses which principal part of the verb: "He IS SWIMMING in the deep end of the pool."?
• What is the past participle of "smite"?
• In this sentence, "While playing the tuba, Orin felt as if his world was perfect," is "playing" a gerund or a participle and why?
• Can “whom” serve as the object of a preposition?
• What is the past tense for "be"?
• Are “who” and “whom” personal pronouns?
• Are “who” and “whom” subject or object pronouns?
• What is the past tense of glow? Is it glowed?
• What are the four different verb forms of "drink"?
• What is the past tense of of the verb "sit"?
• How can a participle be past, present, or dangling?
• What is past tense of "read"? Is it "reed"?
• Do all participles end in -ing, whether past or present participles?
• What person and number appear to be the same in the Present Tense and Future Tense Passive for Third Conjugation verbs?
• What is the past participle of "wear"? Is it worn or wore?
• What is the past and past participle of the word "show"?
• What is imperfect tense? How do you form it. and can you please give me few examples?
• What is the past tense of "squeeze"?
• What is the past simple and participle of the verb "miss"? Does the verb have more than one meaning? If yes, what are some examples of these meanings?
• What is the past tense of the word "slay"?
• What type of verb ends in -ed in the past tense and in the past participle? Is it a helping, regular, action, or being verb?
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• What is the independent clause in the sentence: "Trevor was sleeping when the doorbell rang."?
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• What type of subordinate clause is in the following sentence: "The trouble was that he forgot where he put his keys."?
• The mice darted "into their underground dens" as the owl dived at them? Independent Clause Dependent Clause