What is clause in English?
In grammar, a clause is a word or group of words ordinarily consisting of a subject and a predicate, although in some languages and some types of clauses, the subject may not appear explicitly. (This is especially common in null subject languages.) The most basic kind of sentence consists of a single clause; more complicated sentences may contain multiple clauses. Indeed, it is possible for one clause to contain another. Clauses are often contrasted with phrases. Traditionally, a clause was said to have both a finite verb and its subject, whereas a phrase either contained a finite verb but not its subject (in which case it is a verb phrase) or did not contain a finite verb. Hence, in the sentence “I didn’t know that the dog ran through the yard”, “that the dog ran through the yard” is a clause, as is the sentence as a whole, while “the yard”, “through the yard”, “ran through the yard”, and “the dog” are all phrases. Modern linguists do not draw quite the same distinction, however, the
