EXPANDING YOUR KNOWLEDGE / 21 The Governments of France and England are both democratic. A clause is the section of the sentence containing a noun or pronoun and one finite verb. You can have more than one clause in a sentence but they must be linked correctly. Conjunctions or connectives are words that link two parts of the sentence together. If there is more than one finite verb in a sentence, a conjunction is usually necessary to link the clauses. Look at the following example: She was late for work she missed the train. The above sentence is incorrect as there are two finite verbs – ‘was’ and ‘missed’ – and no punctuation mark or con- junction. A full stop or a semi-colon could be placed after ‘train’: She missed the train. She was late for work. or She missed the train; she was late for work. However, the example could be made into one sentence by the use of a conjunction. This would make a better sentence: Making use of conjunctions (connectives) INTRODUCING CLAUSES