After working through this section, test your knowledge of main clause elements. First, we need to review some basic sentence concepts and terminology. The terminology is not important for its own sake, but because we have to be able to identify and discuss certain critical sentence elements. We'll start with the main clause.
Main clauses are the essential building blocks of all prose.
A main clause consists of a subject and a predicate. This sentence is a main clause. . A simple subject consists of a single noun or pronoun. A complete subject consists of a simple subject and its modifiers.