Subordinate Hunt

Worksheet Description

The “Subordinate Clauses” worksheet is designed to help students practice identifying subordinate (also known as dependent) clauses in sentences. Each sentence on the worksheet contains a subordinate clause, and the student’s task is to underline it, thereby highlighting the part of the sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete thought. The worksheet provides a definition of a subordinate clause at the top, explaining that it includes a subject and a verb but doesn’t express a complete thought. This clear instruction aims to sharpen the student’s grammatical skills in sentence analysis.

The purpose of this worksheet is to teach students the concept of subordinate clauses and how they function within the structure of complex sentences. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing clauses that add additional information to the main clause but are not complete sentences on their own. This knowledge is crucial for understanding sentence composition and for improving writing skills, as it allows students to create sentences that are varied and fully developed. Through this exercise, students learn to analyze and construct sentences with greater grammatical awareness.