Because it relies on students' ability to recognize S/V/C patterns, the KISS Approach differs significantly from most other approaches, including the traditional. A clause is a subject / finite verb / complement pattern and all the words that chunk to it (modify it). As a result, students can simply look at the S/V/C patterns that they have identified in a sentence in order to determine the number of clauses in that sentence. They can then follow a relatively simple analytical procedure to analyze (explain) the clause structure within the sentence. Although some students do very well without lots of examples, others find them helpful. The following are the basic instructional handouts: