Question #985b8

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Nov 17, 2016

One has a subject and a verb; the other doesn't.

Explanation:

A clause has both a subject and a verb. There are two types of clauses: independent and dependent. Independent clauses can stand alone, whereas dependent clauses cannot. In the sentence I just wrote, the first part was an independent clause, and the second part was a dependent clause because it had the subordinating conjunction "whereas" before it.

A phrase, on the other hand, has a noun or a verb, but not both. This phrase, for example. It had a noun, but no verb.