Question

Identify the underlined example.

After they ate lunch and cleaned the tables, the students watched a movie.

prepositional phrase

subordinate clause

subordinating conjunction

independent clause

Answer 1

The underlined example "After they ate lunch and cleaned the tables" is a **subordinate clause**.

A subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and typically begins with a subordinating conjunction (in this case, "After") that connects it to a main clause.