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Hello Eddie There are two other dependent clauses in your sentence 1 that I can see This is a relative clause post modifier of the pronoun all I is the subject of the clause and that together with can see the predicate In the predicate you have the verb phrase made up of a modal auxiliary can and...

Hello Relative clauses can only be from a syntactic point of view either post modifiers of nouns pronouns or sentence modifiers They are never objects they don t modify verbs What can be subjects or objects WITHIN the relative clauses themselves are the relative pronouns used who that which etc...

Sorry I have to eat humble pie Tell me when you will arrive when you will arrive is a nominal relative clause acting as the direct object of the verb tell A relative pronoun can be replaced by an adjunct form for time when Its use along with its antencedent some find tautologous Tell me that when...

1 The parentheses are unnecessary the clause contained is a nominal clause acting as an adjective modifying girl 2 That is a relative pronoun referring to girl it could be replaced by who m 3 Draw little lines separating the various parts subject verb object adjuncts into related units

As far as I can determine ablative absolute applies to Latin not English In Latin grammar an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct usually a participle or adjective with both elements in the ablative case I think...

Hi that s a cute name Your analysis of the sentence is correct for the most part Next to it is is the predicate of the sentence The subject is the rest of the sentence not just a different sign Are you familiar with adjectival relative clauses That s what you have after sign Which says simply...

The concept of embedded clauses is sometimes hard to understand and some pople confuse it with subordinate clauses The difference is not always easy to see The following will not be a book explanation so hopefully it will be fairly easy to understand Two types of dependent clauses exist...