3 Combining sentences
Now you know all the different sentence types, you can start to look at more complex constructions. So far, we’ve been referring to the combination of a subject and a verb (and an object or complement) as a sentence. In some cases this is true, but the reality is a little bit more complicated than that. In linguistics, when we talk about the relationship between a subject and a verb, we talk about a clause. A clause is the simplest form of sentence, formed around one verb, and clauses can be combined into more complex sentences.