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ZBH Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Clause boundaries
Can someone please check I've done the clause boundaries correctly?
People would probably cook their food on open fires|| (and) most food would be homemade.|| There wouldn’t be any factories|| to mass produce things||like processed food, ready meals, metal cans, plastic wrapping, and lots of other stuff.|| This would mean|| there would be less fizzy drinks, canned food, sweets, ready-made food,|| and most shops would probably make their products by hand.|| They wouldn’t have any fridges or freezers|| as they use electricity and food|| like meat would have to be salted|| to be preserved and other food, like bread, would have to be stored in a pantry.||
(And) how would we travel?|| We would probably not have any planes|| (but) we might still have air ships as an alternative to planes|| (and) our trains would all still be steam powered.|| (But) over the last 100 years of no electricity, steam trains and airships would have probably been improved a fair amount, such as navigating systems for airships and faster steam trains.|| We may still have cars|| (but) they would probably be wound up by hand|| like they were|| when people invented them years ago.|| For entertainment people would probably read lots more books|| (and) play lots more instruments.|| There would be a ton of live acoustic instruments||(but) there would be no rock and roll!|| There may well be a cinema,|| just instead of using electricity to project the film|| it would have a man|| turning a handle,|| (or) a donkey walking in circles outside!|| We would have more artists|| (and) with the lack of TV, video game consoles, (and) computers children would go outside a lot more|| (and) get a lot more exercise.|| So that would probably be healthier.||
People would probably cook their food on open fires|| (and) most food would be homemade.|| There wouldn’t be any factories|| to mass produce things||like processed food, ready meals, metal cans, plastic wrapping, and lots of other stuff.|| This would mean|| there would be less fizzy drinks, canned food, sweets, ready-made food,|| and most shops would probably make their products by hand.|| They wouldn’t have any fridges or freezers|| as they use electricity and food|| like meat would have to be salted|| to be preserved and other food, like bread, would have to be stored in a pantry.||
(And) how would we travel?|| We would probably not have any planes|| (but) we might still have air ships as an alternative to planes|| (and) our trains would all still be steam powered.|| (But) over the last 100 years of no electricity, steam trains and airships would have probably been improved a fair amount, such as navigating systems for airships and faster steam trains.|| We may still have cars|| (but) they would probably be wound up by hand|| like they were|| when people invented them years ago.|| For entertainment people would probably read lots more books|| (and) play lots more instruments.|| There would be a ton of live acoustic instruments||(but) there would be no rock and roll!|| There may well be a cinema,|| just instead of using electricity to project the film|| it would have a man|| turning a handle,|| (or) a donkey walking in circles outside!|| We would have more artists|| (and) with the lack of TV, video game consoles, (and) computers children would go outside a lot more|| (and) get a lot more exercise.|| So that would probably be healthier.||
Top answer
You have several errors. Remember that you are looking for subject-verb relationships. For example, in the first paragraph, you have this mistake: There wouldn’t be any factories to mass produce things like processed food, ready meals, metal cans, plastic wrapping, and lots of other stuff.
- You have several errors.
- Remember that you are looking for subject-verb relationships.
- For example, in the first paragraph, you have this mistake: There wouldn’t be any factories to mass produce things like processed food, ready meals, metal cans, plastic wrapping, and lots of other stuff.
- This is all one clause.
- Check your work again.
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You have several errors. Remember that you are looking for subject-verb relationships. For example, in the first paragraph, you have this mistake:
There wouldn’t be any factories to mass produce things like processed food, ready meals, metal cans, plastic wrapping, and lots of other stuff. This is all one clause.
There wouldn’t be any factories to mass produce things like processed food, ready meals, metal cans, plastic wrapping, and lots of other stuff. This is all one clause.
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I put them as two clauses because "wouldn't" is my finite clause and "to mass produce" is my non-finite clause. Is that incorrect?
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Even if you are marking all types of causes (independent, dependent, finite and nonfinite). there are still errors, or inconsistencies.
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ZBH|like processed food, ready meals, metal cans, plastic wrapping, and lots of other stuff.|For instance, that is not a clause; it is a prepositional phrase.
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would go outside a lot more|| (and) get a lot more exercise.
And that is not a clause boundary.
And that is not a clause boundary.
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AlpheccaStarswould go outside a lot more|| (and) get a lot more exercise.And that is not a clause boundary.I seems to me that we have two clauses with finite verbs here:
(and) with the lack of TV, video game consoles, (and) computers children would go outside a lot more|| (and) [children would] get a lot more exercise.
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fivejedjonI seems to me that we have two clauses with finite verbs here:Since the subject is the same for both, I read it as a compound verb in a single clause.
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ZBHThanks everyone, I'll re-check itAs you can see, there are different methods to do this. Find the method you want to use and be consistent.
If you want us to be on the same page when we give our advice, give us a reference to the system you are using.
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