How to Analyse and Understand a Clause
Clause Analyses or “analisi logica” in Italian is for important for demonstrating understanding of content that you are reading. Understand the clause of a paragraph, how clauses are written and how they are formed are important to not only being a student, but reading any sort of descriptive work or literature such as a book, magazine or article. It is no understatement to say that identifying a clause, understanding a clause is not only a helpful skill in reading and understanding literature, but also in understanding how to write clauses for yourself.
To analyze a clause one most first understand what exactly it is that a clause is. It can be a little tricky to understand what a clause is, but the definition is a group of words that function as a part of speech including a subject and a verb. This is a bit complicated, so let’s simplify this definition a bit. Basically the cause is like a part of the sentence which illustrates what the subject has (adjective/noun) or is doing (verb/adverb). For example, take this sentence, “The red dog took a bit of the bagel”, the clause in this sentence illustrates the action of the …
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