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This is a coordination consisting of the two bracketed main clauses. Note that the coordinator "and" is part of the second coordinate. …

The modal meaning makes infinitival relative clauses like this semantically close to purpose infinitivals, but the modal meaning is preferable. …

It must be [like getting to New York for the first time was ___ for me] You are right: it is a clause. The bracketed element is complement of "be" and the clause "getting to New York for the first t …

This undertaking does not affect any limits [(that/which) Section 102(a) of the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996 ("NSMIA") [Pub. L. No. 104-290, 110 Stat. 3416 (Oct. 11, 1996)] imp …

The classification of finite subordinate clauses is based on their internal form rather than spurious analogies with the parts of speech. …

[What he did] was outrageous. "What he did" is not a noun clause (even if there were such a thing, which there isn't), but a noun phrase in a fused relative construction. The pronoun "what" is simul …

who is that man over there. who that man over there is. who that man is over there. that man over there who is. 1 - 3 are subordinate interrogative clauses (embedded questions). … Such clauses do not (normally) have subject-auxiliary inversion, so 1. is ungrammatical. 2 and 3 are fine, where the meaning can be glossed as "I don't know the answer to the question 'Who is that man …

The mosquito moment is the part of the presentation [people remember the most in the conference]. The relativised element is object of the relative clause so, yes, it is omissible. The antece …

We don't need a preposition at the end, but we do need one somewhere in order to connect an expression of time, space etc. to some noun, verb or adjective etc. The omission of a preposition altogether …

In [1-3], the ing clauses are dependents of the prepositions "before", "when" and "after". In [4], the subordinate that clause is a dependent one by virtue of being a complement of the verb "be". … Note that traditional grammar takes "before", "when" and "after" as subordinating conjunctions; thus the clauses they introduce are subordinate , i.e. dependent ones. …

[1] She saw them embracing. [2] She saw them embrace. Either verb-form is possible. The gerund-participial in [1] has a progressive meaning: strictly speaking, in [2] she saw the whole event of thei …

In both [1] and [2], the bracketed subordinate clause modifies "person", but the clauses belong to different categories. … Gerund-participial (ing) clauses when functioning as modifiers in noun phrase structure are semantically similar to relative clauses. …

Last month a porter [carrying a basket of tomatoes in the crowded Shasha market in Ibadan, a city in south-western Nigeria], accidentally spilled his cargo, [leaving a pulpy mess]. The main/matrix ( …

Even if English had one (which it doesn't), the bracketed elements would still not be subjunctive clauses. They are in fact declarative content clauses functioning as complement of "time". … Note: for more advanced learners, these are extraposition constructions where the subordinate clauses are best analysed as being in post-verbal position, serving simply as a semantic argument of the verb …

[What surprises me] is that they are fond of snakes and lizards. The main clause is the whole sentence in a 'fused' relative construction. The subject "what surprises me", is not a clause but a noun …