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18 Oct 2016, 06:25
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Hi,
I am preparing for GMAT and have taken up the Magoosh course. During one of the videos on Subordinate clauses, the guy mentions that the subordinate clause can stand alone. This is where the confusion is. As per my knowledge, dependent clauses cannot stand alone.
Example used is: 'When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.'
DC: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.
IC: that's amore.
In the DC, when we remove the dc marker i.e. 'When', what is left is 'The moon hits your eye like a biz pizza pie.' which is a complete sentence.
Could someone please explain this concept to me as this is one of my weaker areas and a major topic for GMAT.
I am preparing for GMAT and have taken up the Magoosh course. During one of the videos on Subordinate clauses, the guy mentions that the subordinate clause can stand alone. This is where the confusion is. As per my knowledge, dependent clauses cannot stand alone.
Example used is: 'When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.'
DC: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.
IC: that's amore.
In the DC, when we remove the dc marker i.e. 'When', what is left is 'The moon hits your eye like a biz pizza pie.' which is a complete sentence.
Could someone please explain this concept to me as this is one of my weaker areas and a major topic for GMAT.
18 Oct 2016, 15:51
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yash8188
Hi,
I am preparing for GMAT and have taken up the Magoosh course. During one of the videos on Subordinate clauses, the guy mentions that the subordinate clause can stand alone. This is where the confusion is. As per my knowledge, dependent clauses cannot stand alone.
Example used is: 'When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.'
DC: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.
IC: that's amore.
In the DC, when we remove the dc marker i.e. 'When', what is left is 'The moon hits your eye like a biz pizza pie.' which is a complete sentence.
Could someone please explain this concept to me as this is one of my weaker areas and a major topic for GMAT.
Dear yash8188,I am preparing for GMAT and have taken up the Magoosh course. During one of the videos on Subordinate clauses, the guy mentions that the subordinate clause can stand alone. This is where the confusion is. As per my knowledge, dependent clauses cannot stand alone.
Example used is: 'When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.'
DC: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.
IC: that's amore.
In the DC, when we remove the dc marker i.e. 'When', what is left is 'The moon hits your eye like a biz pizza pie.' which is a complete sentence.
Could someone please explain this concept to me as this is one of my weaker areas and a major topic for GMAT.
I'm happy to respond.
Since I am the voice of all the Magoosh SC lessons, chances are very good that I am that guy. I do remember referring to the lyrics of that famous song in one of my video lessons. Let's be clear. A subordinate clause, as it is, can NOT, NOT, stand on its own. That's very important.
Some subordinate clauses start with a subordinate conjunction, the "ON A WHITE BUS" words. For these clauses, if we remove the subordinate conjunction, we would get an independent clause that could stand on its own.
Here is the beginning of SC #671 from the OG2017:
(B) At first, hurricanes travel from east to west, because that is the direction of the prevailing winds, but they then veer off . . .
The subordinate clause begins with the word "because." If we remove that word, the clause becomes:
That is the direction of the prevailing winds.
That's an extremely short sentence, but that is a full sentence by itself, perfect valid as an independent clause.
Other subordinate clause start with a relative pronoun (who, what, that, which, etc.): those subordinate clauses are sometimes called relative clauses. If we remove the relative pronoun from a relative clause, we get an awkward fragment that definitely CANNOT stand on its own.
Here's the OA to SC #672:
At the end of the 1930's, Duke Ellington was looking for a composer to assist him--someone who not only could arrange music for his successful big band, but also mirror his eccentric writing style in order to finish the many pieces he had started but never completed.
This sentence has a long relative clause after the word "someone." Here, if we drop the word "who" and present the rest of the subordinate clause, what we get is an awkward fragment that definitely does NOT work as a stand-alone sentence:
not only could arrange music for his successful big band, but also mirror his eccentric writing style in order to finish the many pieces he had started but never completed.
Of course, that does NOT work as a full sentence.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
