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ZBH Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Clause boundaries
I'm a little confused with clause boundaries when words are in ellipses.
||Now here's my thought experiment||if GFP were to be incorporated into the human mitochondrial genome (not the nucleus)|| the result would be luminescent people for generations to come no need to eat your carrots to see in the dark anymore!||
Would that last part be a clause on its own because I'm assuming it should be "there would be no need to eat your carrots to see in the dark anymore!
Thanks guys x
||Now here's my thought experiment||
Would that last part be a clause on its own because I'm assuming it should be "there would be no need to eat your carrots to see in the dark anymore!
Thanks guys x
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ZBH I'm a little confused with clause boundaries when words are in ellipses. Do you mean parentheses or brackets?
- ZBH I'm a little confused with clause boundaries when words are in ellipses.
- Do you mean parentheses or brackets?
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ZBHI'm a little confused with clause boundaries when words are in ellipses.Do you mean parentheses or brackets?
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I thought it was ellipses.
I mean like in the sentence, "no need to eat your carrots to see in the dark anymore" the words (there is) should be there with IS being the finite verb so the sentence would therefore be a finite clause?
I mean like in the sentence, "no need to eat your carrots to see in the dark anymore" the words (there is) should be there with IS being the finite verb so the sentence would therefore be a finite clause?
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ZBH "no need to eat your carrots to see in the dark anymore"That is a fragment, not a sentence.
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Ah, I see. So they only finite verbs in that paragraph would be
here's/were to be incorporated/would be/would not be classified/would not be
Have I finally got it?! lol
here's/were to be incorporated/would be/would not be classified/would not be
Have I finally got it?! lol
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Here is not a verb.
to be incorporated is a passive voice infinitive
not is an adverb.
to be incorporated is a passive voice infinitive
not is an adverb.
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ZBH I'm a little confused with clause boundaries when words are in ellipses.||Now here's my thought experiment|| if GFP were to be incorporated into the human mitochondrial genome (not the nucleus)|| the result would be luminescent people for generations to come no need to eat your carrots to see in the dark anymore!||Would that last part be a clause on its own because I'
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