The Governments of France and England are both democratic. 

## INTRODUCING CLAUSES 

A clause is the section of the sentence containing a noun or pronoun and one finite verb. You can have more than one clause in a sentence but they must be linked correctly. 

## Making use of conjunctions (connectives) 

Conjunctions or connectives are words that link two parts of the sentence together. If there is more than one finite verb in a sentence, a conjunction is usually necessary to link the clauses. Look at the following example: 

She was late for work she missed the train. 

The above sentence is incorrect as there are two finite verbs – ‘was’ and ‘missed’ – and no punctuation mark or con- junction. A full stop or a semi-colon could be placed after ‘train’: 

or 

She missed the train. She was late for work. 

She missed the train; she was late for work. 

However, the example could be made into one sentence by the use of a conjunction. This would make a better sentence: 

