Are these the subordinate clauses?

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i (generally avoid temptation) unless I cannot resist it. — Mae West

1. (*What history teaches us) is that we have never learned anything from it.
— Georg Wilhelm Hegel

2. When the insects (take over the world), we hope that they will remember our picnics with
gratitude. — Anonymous

3. A woman who will (tell her age) will tell anything. — Rita Mae Brown

4. (If triangles had a god), it would have three sides. — C. L. de Montesquieu

5. He gave her a look that you (could have poured on a waffle). — Ring Lardner

Answer 1

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No, most are not. Clauses, whether independent or subordinate, must contain both a subject and a verb. An independent clause has a subject, a verb, and is, on its own, a complete sentence. A subordinate clause is not a complete sentence on its own, although it has a subject and a verb, because it will contain a subordinating conjunction.

Number 4 is correct. "If" is your conjunction, "triangles" the subject, and "had" the verb.

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I teach high school English.

Answer 2

Yes they are if you do not include what is in the parentheses. A subordinate clause is a statement that cannot stand on its own. An indpendant clause is a sentance that can stand on its own and still make sense.