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Moon7296 Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
a clause or a phrase (is it a complete sentence?)
1. I have twenty village girls to teach, some of them with such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them.
Q) It's hard for me to understand the structure of the underlined part considering the part that is not underlined.
It is not a clause, isn't it? Does the whole sentence(#1) sound good? How can the underlined part be connected to the not underlined part like that?
Q) It's hard for me to understand the structure of the underlined part considering the part that is not underlined.
It is not a clause, isn't it? Does the whole sentence(#1) sound good? How can the underlined part be connected to the not underlined part like that?
Top answer
Yes, your sentence is complete and OK. The underlined part is a verbless clause. It has a subject + predicate structure, but with no verb in the main part of the predicate.
- Yes, your sentence is complete and OK.
- The underlined part is a verbless clause.
- It has a subject + predicate structure, but with no verb in the main part of the predicate.
- The preposition "with" is the clue here; it is semantically similar to "have", so it entails "Some of them have such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them".
- The verbless clause here is an adjunct (an optional element), which in your example is of the supplementary kind - notice how it's loosely added at the end of the sentence and set off from the main part by a comma.
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Yes, your sentence is complete and OK.
The underlined part is a verbless clause. It has a subject + predicate structure, but with no verb in the main part of the predicate. The preposition "with" is the clue here; it is semantically similar to "have", so it entails "Some of them have such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them".
The verbless clau
The underlined part is a verbless clause. It has a subject + predicate structure, but with no verb in the main part of the predicate. The preposition "with" is the clue here; it is semantically similar to "have", so it entails "Some of them have such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them".
The verbless clau
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