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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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What does 'what they have intimated was a "beat-up"' mean here?
Both Quinn and The Age have come in for criticism from contributors
Tom Ryan and David Stratton on this blog over [what they have intimated
was a "beat-up"].
Grammatically, the expression "what they …
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Relative Clause Sentences I have a lot of work to do
Infinitival relative clauses like this have a modal meaning comparable to that expressed in finite clauses by "can or "should". Your example is comparable to
I have a lot of work that I should do. …
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It seems the main clause is absent in this complex sentence. Why is it correct?
[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 …
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Prepositional phrase or adjective phrase
The classification of finite subordinate clauses is based on their internal form rather than spurious analogies with the parts of speech. …
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Compound sentence with a common verb and an article
[1] She is [a doctorate in physics], [a soccer player], and [a pianist].
[2] She [is a doctorate in physics] and [is [a soccer player] and [a pianist]].
[3] She [is a doctorate in physics], [is a soc …
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He was so angry that he picked up his axe: noun clause?
The classification of finite subordinate clauses is based on their internal form rather than spurious analogies with the parts of speech. …
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Question about the sentence structure and grammar of this sentence
Here are five things about friendships that some people believe [ __ are
true].
I can see only one relative clause, i.e. the one in bold.
There is a further subordinate clause, bracketed, within the …
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Is this string of words an independent clause "Historically, the lands that are now parts of...
This is a compound sentence consisting of two independent clauses. Compound sentences are linked by coordination, usually with one of the coordinators "and", "or" or "but". … I've bracketed the two independent clauses. …
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Can I omit 'why' and 'how' from these sentences
1.The reason why I'm single is I'm very shy.
1a The reason I'm single is I'm very shy.
2.*The way how he talks is so impressive.
2a The way he talks is so impressive.
1a is an acceptable alternant t …
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I am confused about the correct use of "what" in this sentence
She doesn't know [what a great teacher he is].
Yes, it's okay. The bracketed element is an exclamative clause in which "what" is an adjective functioning as an external modifier in the noun phrase " …
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What is a noun clause?
Preliminary point: modern grammar rejects the idea that clauses can somehow be nouns, i.e. noun clauses. … The fact that the clauses can be replaced by nouns is irrelevant. In many cases the so-called noun clauses can't. …
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Is that an attributive clause?
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 …
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What difference does adding 'who is' make in the meaning of the sentence?
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. …
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what is the type of this cluase?
[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 …
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Some Questions About Sentence Clauses
Within the subordinate clause is a coordination of two further subordinate clauses each functioning as complement of the catenative verb "want". …
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