http://www.englishforums.com/English/LinguisticsDiscussionForum/Forum35.htmGet into the nitty-gritty of the language.enXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htm#346903Sun, 24 May 2009 12:12:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:346903Case Assigner0http://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htm#346903http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments35-346903.xmlOk, I made some changes..... Talked to my Prof. today and he said that an important criterion for identifying embedded clauses is to have lexical verbs with a tense form.... Not an infinitival one. Hmmmm, makes me wonder whether there is good reason to change something in g)... I changed l) into: [When they had announced ] everyone was relieved. We have finite embedded clauses here. Furthermore I changed m): I am not certain [ that Louise has already announced ] A finite embedded sentence. Do I have to close the brackets after announced?http://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htm#342068Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:12:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:342068Case Assigner1http://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htm#342068http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments35-342068.xmlThank you very much..... especially for the correction of the mistakes I have done. I will check the sentences again, maybe I can find an answer to the problematic cases. The problem is that the book I am learning with does not really offer good explanations to all these cases. Therefore it is really hard for me to decide where the embedded clause starts and where it ends. In the book hasn´t occured a single embedded clause that is in between a senctence. The book only deals with sentences where the embedded clause is at the beginning or at the end. Well, before I am going to ask my next question, I want to clarifiy this one. Btw, the next one will be about argument structurehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htm#341958Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:12:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:341958CalifJim2http://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htm#341958http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments35-341958.xmlI already asked whether someone (anyone) studies (is studying) generative grammar. I have some questions concerning excercises taken from a book. I do not want to ask my Prof. if everything is correct or not. There will be lots of questions, and I´m going to ask all of them. I would be very pleased if there is someone out there who can help me to find the way through the nitty-gritty of generative grammar. Here is the first question..... I am not pretty (very) sure of all of them. 1) Identifiy the embedded clauses in the following sentences. Classifiy them according to whether are finite clauses, non – finite clauses, or small clauses. My answer is marked with brackets. Furthermore, there is an...http://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htmTue, 24 Feb 2009 13:12:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:341682Case Assigner3http://www.englishforums.com/English/1GettingIntoNittyGrittyEmbedded-Clauses/vbjvq/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments35-341682.xmlI already asked whether someone studies generative grammar. I have some questions concerning excercises taken from a book. I do not want to ask my Prof. if everything is correct or not. There will be lots of questions, and I´m going to ask all of them. I would be very pleased if there is someone out there who can help me to find the way through the nitty-gritty of generative grammar. Here is the first question..... I am not pretty sure of all of them. 1) Identifiy the embedded clauses in the following sentences. Classifiy them according to whether are finite clauses, non – finite clauses, or small clauses. My answer is marked with brackets. Furthermore, there is an explanation of my choice. a) ...