dependent and independent clause

For his PhD, for which he was awarded a prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship, Vail is often based back on Lizard Island. He had initially planned to do all his research in the Red Sea, but he says that in the last five to six years the grouper population there has gone downhill very quickly due to overfishing. “It’s really sad. I went back last year and could snorkel for three hours and not see any grouper.”

Vail has quite an interest in overfishing. Before he came to Cambridge, Vail canoed around Indonesia’s Togean Islands and won an award from Australian Geographic for his account of the trip. He had hoped to find evidence of local fishermen living sustainably in harmony with their environment, but instead he says there was a dearth of fish because they had been “hammered” by the local population. “There was nothing over 20-30 centimetres long left,” he says.” Even though there was no large scale fishing going on, they had managed to do a pretty good job of using up the fish. It was not sustainable.”

Independent and Dependent Clause

For his PhD, for which he was awarded a prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship(1), Vail is often based back on Lizard Island. He had initially planned to do all his research in the Red Sea, but he says(2) that in the last five to six years the grouper population there has gone downhill very quickly due to overfishing(3). “It’s really sad. I went back last year and could snorkel for three hours and not see any grouper.”

Vail has quite an interest in overfishing. Before he came to Cambridge(4), Vail canoed around Indonesia’s Togean Islands and won an award from Australian Geographic for his account of the trip. He had hoped to find evidence of local fishermen living sustainably in harmony with their environment, but instead he says there was a dearth of fish because they had been “hammered” by the local population(5). “There was nothing over 20-30 centimetres long left,” he says.” Even though there was no large scale fishing going on(6), they had managed to do a pretty good job of using up the fish. It was not sustainable.”

Note:

Orange Dark à independent clause

Blue à dependent clause

Name of Clause and Reason

(1)   Adjective clause

-          This clause explain the noun “his PhD”

(2)   Adverb clause

-          This clause shows a contrast between two related event

(3)   Noun clause

-          This clause has a pronoun “it”, so we can change the sentence to be “but he says it”

(4)   Adverb clause

-          This clause included in clause of time using conjunction

(5)   Adverb clause

-          This clause shows a contrast between two related event

(6)   Adverb clause

-          This clause shows a contrast between two related event

Reference:

Anonim. “Memory like a fish”. 2011 (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/memory-like-a-fish/, diakses 20 Desember 2011)