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Inchoateknowledge  #243183  Thu, 06 Jul 06 09:04 AM
The police questioned every person who lived in the neighbourhood.

The police questioned every person = coordinate clause.
'questioned' here is finite verb.
'The police' =  subject
'every person'  = object, and noun phrase
'every' = adjective (noun qualifier)
'who lived in the neighbourhood' = subordinate clause
'who' = relative pronoun
'lived' = finite verb,
'in the neighbourhood' =  prepositional phrase
'the neighbourhood' = noun phrase
'neighbourhood' = noun,
How do we call the sentence element that answers the question: where?

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CalifJim  #243188  Thu, 06 Jul 06 09:21 AM
Coordinate clause?  What is your definition of this term?

Adverbs of place answer the question where?

Except for coordinate clause, I agree with you on the analysis.

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milky  #243206  Thu, 06 Jul 06 10:21 AM

This is the definition of a coordinate clause. Does it fit with your example above?

Definition
 

A coordinate clause is a clause belonging to a series of two or more clauses which

 
Examples (English)
 
  • I will go home and he will go to work.
  • John likes hamburgers, but Mary prefers hot dogs.
  • We might go to Seattle, or we might go to California.

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Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".
Inchoateknowledge  #243247  Thu, 06 Jul 06 02:31 PM
thanks


  
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