Talk:Independent clause
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Wikipedia's Strunk & White entry includes this item in the list of "Elementary rules of usage": Do not join independent clauses by a comma. S&W also tell us Do not break sentences in two.
The original examples did precisely that:
- I am a bus driver. (simple sentence)
- I drive a bus. (simple sentence)
- I am a bus driver, and I drive a bus. (compound sentence)
- I want to be an astronaut, but I haven't gotten my diploma. (compound sentence)
- I am a bus driver, but I want to be an astronaut. (compound sentence)
- Go to the store, and get me a copy of Planetside. (compound sentence) (Though a subject is not visible, in English the subject of an imperative is considered to be the pronoun 'you')
The correct examples are properly written as thus:
- I am a bus driver. (simple sentence)
- I drive a bus. (simple sentence)
- I am a bus driver and drive a bus. (compound sentence)
- I want to be an astronaut but I haven't gotten my diploma. (compound sentence)
- I am a bus driver but I want to be an astronaut. (compound sentence)
- Go to the store and get me a copy of Planetside. (compound sentence) (Though a subject is not visible, in English the subject of an imperative is considered to be the pronoun 'you')
I am not at all confident that these are in fact real examples of Independent Clauses. I rather suspect the original author knows little more than I do... and if I knew what an Independent Clause is, I wouldn't have clicked onto this page in the first place!
Although Jessica goes to the lake,she doesn't like to swim.
ALthough (conjunction)
Although Jessica goes to the lake. (dependent claues)
she doesn't like to swim.(independent clause)
