Sentence analysis

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sahar1313  #125273  Tue, 09 Aug 05 02:33 PM

hi everybody

I'm not a student of english language but I love english language and specialy sentence analysis. I'm so happy that I found this forum.

I have a question about relative clauses in the example below (punctuation is not complete because I'm not sure about the type of the clauses)

Last night I went to a party which was unusual for me, because I don't usually go to them.

this can be somehow ambigious because the clause "which was unusual for me" can refer to the word "party" or to the idea of  "going to a party". in the first case, the wh clause will be a defining adjective clause (not needing any comma) and the clause "because I don't usually go to them" is adverb clause of reason for wh clause.

but if the wh clause refers to the idea of the first clause (ie "going to a party") what do we call it? is it adverb clause or adjective clause? and is it defining or nondefining?

thank you in advance

  
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Mister Micawber  #125278  Tue, 09 Aug 05 02:41 PM

It is a non-defining (nonrestrictive) sentence adverbial.



PS:  I see this is your first post, Sahar-- welcome to English Forums!

  
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