The first, ‘If he did not come’, is a subordinate clause of condition treated as a sentence. Also, ‘Some of the people’ is a phrase equally wrongly handled.

The intentional fragment can be a word, a phrase, a clause, but does not express the full thought of a complete sentence. A simple sentence is made up of one main clause, and no other clauses.

A SET of four tough but very instructive grammar questions was sent to my personal messages box in Jose Carillo’s English Forum recently by a member who goes by the username ESL-GUY. The questions are ...

The first, ‘If he did not come’, is a subordinate clause of condition treated as a sentence. Also, ‘Some of the people’ is a phrase equally wrongly handled.

Now, we have in each of the statements a sentence made up of a main clause and a subordinate one. Such a structure that combines an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses is called ...