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Question
Underline the clauses in the below sentence and also the words that link or connect the clauses.
It is believed that The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed and recited by a blind poet named Homer, who lived about 900 BCE and who wandered from one Greek city or village to another, singing his poems to all who would receive him in their homes.
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Solution
- Main Clause: It is believed
- Subordinate Clause: that The Iliad and the Odyssey were composed and recited by a blind poet named Homer
- Subordinating conjunction: that
- Subordinate Clause: who lived about 900 BCE
- Subordinating conjunction: who
- Subordinate Clause: who wandered from one Greek city or village to another, singing his poems to all
- Subordinating conjunction: who
- Subordinate Clause: who would receive him in their homes and give him hospitality.
- Subordinating conjunction: who
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