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Split the following sentences into their constituent clauses

• There is no freedom if you are enclosed by self-interest or by various walls of discipline.

a) There is no freedom-subordinate clause

b) if you are enclosed by self-interest or by various walls of discipline - main clause


Reason. You can see that (b) is complete in its sense. This is the main clause. The meaning of clause (a) depends on (b). This is the subordinate clause. Sentences with the main clause and one or more subordinate clauses are complex sentences.


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