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Some of the following passages are clauses (containing a predicate and a subject), while others are simply phrases. See if you can identify which are clauses and which are phrases. Remember that a phrase will not have both a subject and a predicate.

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1. I love to eat Montréal bagels
   • 1.1 clause
   • 1.2 phrase
2. the big, bad wolf
   • 2.1 clause
   • 2.2 phrase
3. rode the bus to Halifax
   • 3.1 clause
   • 3.2 phrase
4. they were thinking about the issue
   • 4.1 clause
   • 4.2 phrase
5. the author considering everything written on this subject
   • 5.1 clause
   • 5.2 phrase
6. stay on the highway through British Columbia
   • 6.1 clause
   • 6.2 phrase
7. after the morning rush hour
   • 7.1 clause
   • 7.2 phrase
8. they hate politics
   • 8.1 clause
   • 8.2 phrase
9. because of the coat that I bought in the West Edmonton Mall
   • 9.1 clause
   • 9.2 phrase
10. when the train arrived at the station
    • 10.1 clause
    • 10.2 phrase

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