Clause {()}

Clause [()]

Clause()
Clause Clause- clause
clause main clause
()

clause

() principle clause

clause

subordinate clause ()
It was raining when we arrived.
main clause

subordinate clause

( It was raining () when we arrived

main clause ()

when

we

arrived

()

subordinate

clause () main clause It was raining

subordinate clause when we arrive

)

Subordinate clause ()
noun clause [() ]
adjective clause [()]
adverb clause [ () ]

 noun clause [() ]

subordinate claus that, what, if, whether, how,
where, who, whom, whose, why, however, whatever, wherever, whoever
noun clause
I don't know where he went.
I don't know the place.
subordinate clause (where)

noun clasue
(As subject of a verb)
-
Whatever he says is always true.
What you do now is most important.
What route we take is our choice.

(Noun clause Whatever he says what you do now what route we take
is )
(As object of a verb)

I like what you've written.

I told him that he had been selected.
I thought that we would watch a movie.

(what you've written that he had been selected that we would watch a movie
like, told, thought )
(As object of a participle)
-
Discovering that it was right, I jumped with joy.

(that it was right (participle) discovering (-ing) )

(as object of a preposition)

-
Sometimes I think of what he said.
I agree with what he said.

(what he said of what he said with )

(As object of an infinitive)

-
Jim wants to know where his friends are. Jim

(where his friends are infinitive to know )

 (as an adjective complement)

-
The girls were happy that Saturday was a holiday.
,

(that Saturday was a holiday happy )

(As complement of a verb of

incomplete predication)
-
The problem is that we do not have a leader.
This gift is what you wanted.

(that we do not have a leader what you wanted is

(predicate nominative) the problem this gift )

(In apposition or addition to a noun or a pronoun)

-
The man that we saw there is Mr. Harris. Mr. Harris -

(that we saw there the man )