The causal nexus is represented by the independent clause complex and not by the two interdependent clause simplexes.
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An independent clause realises a speech act such as a statement, a question, a command or an offer.
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It is used in single clause sentences and in compound sentences in which the independent clause expresses enquiries.
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It's been ages since my finger strayed east of the L key to plant a semicolon next to an independent clause.
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Note, however, that in German when the independent clause comes after a subordinate clause the conjugated verb comes before the subject.
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My understanding has always been that an independent clause needs to precede a colon being used to introduce a series of items.
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A set of words with no independent clause may be an " incomplete sentence ", also called a " sentence fragment ".
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Maybe because of the length of the sentence, or the fact that it utilizes an independent clause at the end, I don't know.
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The adverbs and adverbial phrases that fit the criteria for a conjunctive adverb are always modifiers of the predicate in the first independent clause.
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In an independent clause, the perfective verb is almost always understood as having occurred in the past, but can signal either a recent or a distant past.
