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Clauses Worksheets
Explore our independent and dependent clauses worksheets that help students identify noun, adjective, and adverbial clauses, and practice combining main and subordinate clauses with engaging exercises and examples that strengthen sentence structure and grammar skills. We offer some free worksheets for children to practice!
Underline the dependent clause in each sentence, and see how these clauses add meaning but cannot stand alone.
Identifying Independent Clauses
Recognize complete thoughts that can stand alone and distinguish them from dependent clauses in these worksheets.
Dependent or Independent Clause?
Decide whether the underlined part of a sentence is an independent or dependent clause and distinguish complete thoughts from incomplete ones.
This printable chart defines dependent and independent clauses with examples, and classifies dependent clauses into noun, adjective, or adverb.
Combining Sentences Using Relative Pronouns
Combine two independent clauses using a relative pronoun and practice creating complex sentences in these clause worksheets.
Identify and underline the noun clause, then state its function to understand how it works as a subject, object, or complement.
Combining Two Independent Clauses
Join two independent clauses with a comma and an appropriate conjunction to create smoother sentences in these worksheets.
Splitting into Independent Clauses
Break sentences with adjective clauses and rewrite them as two independent clauses, eliminating the relative clause.
Adjective Clauses | Relative Clauses
Identify the adjective or relative clause in each sentence and find the noun the clause modifies to complete the worksheets.
Practice adding an independent clause to complete each sentence, expressing a complete thought.
To each independent clause, in these worksheets, add detail, reason, time, or condition using a dependent clause.
Underline the adverbial clause that provides information about time, reason, condition, contrast, place, or manner.
Completing Stories with Adverbial Clauses
Read the stories in these printable worksheets and fill in the blanks with adverbial clauses.
Noun, Adjective, or Adverbial Clause?
Determine the function of the underlined clause in each sentence as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
