Dear brother,
A phrase is a group of words without a verb and thus no complete meaning
Ex: the beautiful girl.
A clause a is a sentence....(subject+verb with/out a complement.. depending on the verb itself) and this category can be divided to Independent clauses and dependent clauses
The Independent Clause is a sentence (subject+verb+object/complement.. depending on its verb)... and have a complete thought unit.. on other words can stand by itself.. because we've a full meaning..
Ex:
This is the book I was searching for.
As for the dependent clause.. here we've a sentence also but this time can't stand by itself.. needs other parts of speech to give a full meaning
Ex: who's standing at the opposite side.
as you see it has a subject , a verb but we still wanna know who is that guy who's standing at the opposite side.. right?
The man who's standing at the opposite side is my manager.
see!
we'll continue our topic later insh'allah.
regards.
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