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This site plays fast and loose with the word 'sentence' in places. That's because everyone knows what a sentence is and I don't want to get bogged down talking about clauses, predicates, finite verbs and adverb clauses. Largely because I don't know what most of those things are.
For those who insist, a clause is a group of words that has a verb in it and a subject: I like you. (the verb is like, the subject is you).
Or at least that used to be true before the grammarians did their thing and made it all too confusing to breathe. If you're writing copy for business, you don't need to know most of this stuff.
Very, very simply:
I like you. (an independent clause making a sentence)
I like you because I am drunk. (a clause, a conjunction and an adverb clause, making a sentence)
Marketing copy often plays fast and loose with structures of this kind, using sentences without verbs and other horrors. It still needs to make sense, however, so read it out aloud and make sure you avoid errors like the comma splice.
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