Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to ...

A phrase is a group of words that does not contain a subject and a predicate, with ‘predicate’ referring to the part of a sentence that contains the verb and gives information about the subject.

Space Cadet Carl and Selena Stardust get to grips with sentences, phrases and clauses. Suitable for teaching English Language at Key Stage 3 or Third Level.

A subordinating conjunction is simply the word/words that is used to join a subordinating clause to another clause or sentence. For example: He was annoyed, the train had stopped.