Whats the difference between a clause and a phrase?
These are the building blocks of a sentence. The difference is that a clause contains a subject and a verb. It often stands alone as a simple sentence (He loves dogs), but may also be part of a longer sentence (He loves dogs, but he doesn’t own one). A phrase is a group of words in a sentence that does not contain a subject and a verb (In the afternoon, he took his mother’s dog for a walk). • Biology: What is photosynthesis? It is — as we suspected — to do with how plants grow. It’s the process by which they convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates, using the energy they absorb from light by means of a green pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is stored mainly in the leaves and is the reason most plants are green. Photosynthesis releases oxygen into the atmosphere, enabling the rest of us to breathe. • History: The war of 1812, between the U.S. and Britain, actually lasted nearly three years, from 1812 to 1815. Britain was already at war with France (under Napoleon) an
