English's clauses

does not express a complete thought

a compound sentence

a complete sentence

a complete thought

a complete thought that can't stand by itself as a sentence

a simple-complex sentence

a complete thought that can stand by itself as a sentence

a type of french braid

Defining clauses define who did the action in the sentence

Defining clauses introduce information that is not important in the sentence. You can omit them without affecting the message of the speaker.

Defining clauses are the clauses that introduce essential/important information in the sentence that cannot be omitted.

Independent

Dependent

is a word added to the beginning of an independent clause that makes it into a dependent clause.

is a word to connect things

Dependent clause

Independent clause

and, whom, because, but, even if and since

For, and, nor, but, or, yet and so

after, although, in order to, unless and while

people and things

places and time

possessions

all of the above