Questions tagged [clauses]
А clause is a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
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Can two verbs be kept in a sentence?
If i write:
Different rules are enforced to extract potential roof planes from classified data set.
then I feel there are 2 verbs in this sentence. So I modified it as:
Different rules are ...
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This seems not a question but what is it?
"And if I find you have broken your promise to me and to God, I will
reveal your crime to your victims." "And they will
kill me. Good work, Father." "As far as I can ...
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How do I understand these while clauses?
"A woman doing the same job as a man should be paid the same," she
said. "But we are often told that the man has to support a family."
Several men in the audience nodded emphatically:
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“the” vs. “a/an” + clauses
Here's the situation: I meet a friend and I tell her about yesterday:
“Hey, John!”
“Hi, Sarah!”
“How was yesterday's trip?”
“It was great. Karl took me to the countryside to show me his new ...
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Question and a sentence in the same sentence
We were also innocent people, but who helped us?
What is wrong with the above sentence? Can't I put a question and a sentence in the same sentence. My grammar checking software throws following error:...
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When saved as html
Can one explain me a little about the use of When save.
I have many posts in others about describing such things.
Consider I'm describing a process: saving one (MS Word)file as html.
When saved as as ...
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Combining sentences with 'which'
I have the following constructions:
Conversely, automatic canopy detection is often failed in dense scenes.
Therefore, efficient and more specific solutions are demanded.
What would be an ...
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combining two ideas with 'whereas'
I want to tell two ideas within a sentence. for that I am trying to use whereas;
Not sure, how the construction would be.
The recognition of canopies is well advanced in the forest regions,
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Understanding a passage in relation with 'Clauses' and 'Phrases' [duplicate]
Below is the screenshot of a passage from 'Oxford Guide to English Grammar by John Eastwood'.
The passage says A clause has a subject and a verb. Subject and Verb are the elements of a sentence or a ...
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Am I using correct preposition with proper clauses? [closed]
I am writing the following text.
Although, we obtained a satisfactory results for this analysis, we cannot say that the same precision can be obtained with respect to field measurements. After this ...
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Combining sentences without using "that" or "which"
I am struggling to combine the following two ideas into one complete sentence:
High number of missed cycles can be seen from site1.
Missed cycles mainly occurred due to the missing segments (...
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Is "in which" correct here?
We give an overview to knowledge representation.
Our proposed strategy is based on knowledge representation
What is the best way to combine these two sentences?
For example, is it correct if ...
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Is "in which" relevant here?
I am writing the following sentence.
In contrast to the object modeling, (ABC et al., 2009) present an approach for urban object recognition using shape knowledge in which a set of features ...
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correct usage of clauses referring to subject and object
I have a doubt on my construction. Here is my original idea. i have written it in 2 sentences.
Outer bounds are fixed using method A. Method A leads to a closed
polygon having preserved their ...
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Can we omit the subject of second sentence when they relate to each other
I am having the following construction.
1: The figure demonstrates that the most frequent rmse falls within the
range of 0.3m-0.6m. The deviation is approximately equal to the
resolution of ...
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Does the "by which" give correct meaning
What clause should I use to express following idea correctly?
After that, polygon edges are extended and intersected by which leads a closed polygon.
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Can sentences be joined when we need to say "such as X OR Y"?
When defining something, it can also be defined, for example, as A or B. If I give you a practical case to this situation,
The idea behind the process is to find a common envelope.
The ...
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how to understand this attributive clause?
“We believe a product that addresses the more than 70 percent of global wireless subscribers that are unsubsidized pre-paid is necessary in order for Apple to grow its EPS next year,” Piecyk writes.
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How to choose the right pronouns in elliptical clauses? [duplicate]
I'm having some difficulties to understand how to use the right pronoun in a elliptical clause.
For example:
Ronaldo is a better football player than (I/me).
I am a better teacher than (he/him)
Is ...
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What is the meaning of "for many years to come" in this sentence?
The Bilingual Education Act is clearly a work-in-progress, and related
issues are likely to be found in the media and on the ballots for many
years to come.
There's one main clause, in skeleton ...
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