By Literature, Clauses

Hi Maple, Are you sure you mean "sentences"? That looks to me like one wallyloobirdpippin of a single sentence! Are Chinese materia medica medicinal herbs or the collected wisdom of the ages re stomach pain? By "sieving" are you speaking figuratively about going through...

In my experience in reading the literature of linguistics the term appositive (that clause) is restricted to content clauses; the term is not typically applied to relative clauses.That's a good observation about the difference in the use of that in these two types of clauses, by the way. In...

Hi BelieverDon't look for logic with regard to articles in English. Adjectival attributes very often bring on an indefinite article:A new culture was born.A relative clause may do the same:We need a culture that is totally different from what we have now.When an adjectival attribute refers to a...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun. It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. _____________ The modern definition is given at...

I belong to a country where English is used as a second language, so it is not my first language. A few days ago I appeared in an interview for the post of English Teacher. I want to share a few points of that interview for your worthy comments. I use A for interviewer and B for myself. ...

if you call this a relative clause, then the clause is relative to . . . what?Much of the literature on the topic says where is both the antecedent and the relative pronoun all in one. That's why it's often called "fused". I know the place in/at which the pen is. = I know where the pen...

Hi, So, your position appears to be this. 1. Bob went to the store and went to the postoffice. is a simple sentence. 2. Bob went to the store and Bob went to the postoffice. is a compound sentence. You don't think that the basic structure of both these sentences is the same? I do. I don't...

Compound Sentence -- Two-part sentence. Both parts could be sentences on their own. Each part of the sentence has a subject. Each part of the sentence has a predicate. Each part is called an independent clause. That is:Bob went to the store and Bob went to the...

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I...

Thank you, Nona de Brit. The blue answers are my alternatives. I have two questions about these exercises. 1. If you visit the Lincoln Memorial, you will see a giant statue of Lincoln _dominating_/which/that dominates_ (dominate) the center of the Memorial. 2. The Washington Monument...