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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Adverbial Phrase confusion.
I'm taking an online quiz, and it claims that the following sentence is complex:
What I learn is what I take with me the rest of my life.
So is "is what" an adverbial clause? Can the verb be before the subject in a clause?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Schuyler
What I learn is what I take with me the rest of my life.
So is "is what" an adverbial clause? Can the verb be before the subject in a clause?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Schuyler
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What I learn -- subordinate nominal clause acting as subject. -- subordinate nominal clause acting as subject complement .
- What I learn -- subordinate nominal clause acting as subject.
- -- subordinate nominal clause acting as subject complement .
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What I learn -- subordinate nominal clause acting as subject.
is -- verb
what I take with me the rest of my life.-- subordinate nominal clause acting as subject complement.
is -- verb
what I take with me the rest of my life.-- subordinate nominal clause acting as subject complement.
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So the sentence is not complex as they claim? It is a simple sentence?
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I am just learning about them, but from my lessons, it is a sentence with a dependent clause (containing a predicate and subject) and an independent clause (containing another predicate/verb and subject).
I cannot find the dependent clause containing a separate subject and verb in the aforementioned sentence.
I cannot find the dependent clause containing a separate subject and verb in the aforementioned sentence.
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Subordinate is a synonym for dependent. Both clauses have the subject 'I' and the verbs 'learn' and 'take' respectively.
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OK, but I still cannot break the sentence into a dependent and independent clause. What are the two clauses?
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What I learn is what I take with me the rest of my life.-- This is the independent clause.
What I learn
what I take with me the rest of my life-- These are the two dependent clauses.
What I learn
what I take with me the rest of my life-- These are the two dependent clauses.
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You are saying that the entire sentence is the independent clause? Based on my current lesson, a sentence must have 2 separate, stand alone clauses to be considered non-simple.
If you remove an independent clause from the sentence, you must be able to make a dependent clause with the leftover words...not by adding them from the independent clause. Is that not correct?
If you remove an independent clause from the sentence, you must be able to make a dependent clause with the leftover words...not by adding them from the independent clause. Is that not correct?
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You are saying that the entire sentence is the independent clause? -- Yes. It is the matrix clause.
Based on my current lesson, a sentence must have 2 separate, stand alone clauses to be considered non-simple.- That would be a compound sentence.
If you remove an independent clause from the sentence, you must be able to make a dependent clause with the leftove
Based on my current lesson, a sentence must have 2 separate, stand alone clauses to be considered non-simple.- That would be a compound sentence.
If you remove an independent clause from the sentence, you must be able to make a dependent clause with the leftove
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Again, I thank you for your help and am not trying to be argumentative at all...just a math guy trying to wrap is brain around grammar.
Here is the definition from dictionary.com
Here is the definition from dictionary.com
complex sentence
noun
a sentence containing one or more dependent clauses in addition to the main clause, as When the bell rings (dependent clause), wal
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