Wishes Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 One of my students received this sentence in his class to parse: Josh studied attentively while eating Doritos. In this sentence the grading sheet said while was actings a subordinating conjunction and eating was a verb, but that the sentence was simple. From my understanding, if you have a subordinating conjunction, you had a dependent clause and if you have a dependent clause, you don't have a simple sentence. Can someone explain this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioMomof3 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 I think "while" serves as a preposition in this sentence and "eating" is a gerund with it's object being "Doritos." "Josh studied attentively, while he ate Doritos." In this sentence, "while" is the subordinating conjunction. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wishes Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 Thanks! That’s what I thought. He told me “the answer key said…..” and I told him the key was most likely wrong. However, I wanted to have my thoughts double-checked. Thanks again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Eating Doritos is behaving like a noun so it’s a gerund phrase? I’m not good with that stuff but we just did it in MCT and I think that’s what they’d say. My DDs homework told her to rephrase something so that it was a clause but not a complete sentence but the rephrasing they gave didn’t have a verb. Doesn’t that mean it’s not a clause? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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