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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,...

Hela wrote: Thanks to all of you. and have a nice week. Hello Once more 1) A day will come when you no longer remember my face. when you will no longer remember my face = temporal adjunct -- describes the action, not the noun (day), not an adjectival clause (not relative...

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...

Hello, Hela. Your analysis of the first sentence (I gave my sister a cat for her birthday) is correct. I'd be happy with calling the prepositional phrase "for her birthday" an adjunct (adverbial) of time, though some more accurate label may exist. It's true that R. Quirk does not consider...

Hello Roro OED says about the etymology of "cost" as follows. a. OF. coster, couster (mod. coûter) = Pr. and Sp. costar, Pg. custar, It. costare:—L. constôre to stand together, stand firm, abide, be settled or fixed, stand at a price, cost, f. con- together + stôre to stand. The...

You need a verb to have a clause. I think you meant "The GMC cannot investigate every controversial treatment brought to its attention". This verb phrase has a clause within another clause. The outer clause is a causative ("get"), so it has an inner clause "industries to reduce waste"...

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...