Ning Liu TP#4

I met Ooki again the following Friday. During this session, I taught him the different clauses, such as the independent (main) and the dependent (subordinate). I told him that a clause by itself meant that it had a noun and a predicate. I gave him multiple examples of the two, showing that dependent clauses cannot stand by themselves. To further express this idea, I asked him if he knew what independent and dependent meant, to which he replied he did not. After explaining the two new learned vocabulary words, he began to understand that because dependent clauses are dependent, they need to rely on an independent clause to be part of a sentence. During this point, I asked him to make 4 examples of each clause on a sheet of paper. Afterwards, I taught him, or perhaps gave him a reminder, of how to use these two together. When using two independent clauses, you use a comma and a conjunction to link them together. When using an independent clause and a dependent clause, the manner of which you connect them is dependent on the order. If the independent clause comes first, then no comma is needed. However, if the dependent clause comes first, then a comma is needed in between the two. Since this idea is one of the most basic forms in English, it only took about 10 minutes. At this point, I taught him adjective-clauses and noun-clauses. I gave multiple examples, and then asked him to write some examples as well. We used objects around the room to further express these clause ideas. This seemed to be a very useful lesson, as he was enjoying this newfound knowledge and is a practical grammar point. Since time ran out, I told him that we would do definite and indefinite articles next meeting.