Identify the subordinate clause.
the book that i am reading concerns world population problems.
the book
the book that i am reading
book that i am reading
that i am reading
i am reading
concerns world population
this sentence contains no dependent clause

The correct answer is: that I am reading

A subordinate clause ( a dependent clause ) begins with a subordinate conjunction (as, if, than, that, where, until etc) or a relative pronoun (that, who, whom etc.) and will have a subject and a verb. This clause can not stand alone as a sentence because it does not provide a complete thought.

that I am reading is a subordinate clause because it contains a relative pronoun that introduces it ( that ), a subject ( I ) and a verb ( am reading ). It can not stand on its own because it does not have any meaning.

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,

dang did this test hmmm lemme think

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