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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Clauses
Can someone help me with identifying clause types in the sentence:
Knowing that they were going to lose, they went home.
I am studying content clauses (which some textbooks think are the same as complement clauses while others disagree) and believe "that they were going to lose" is a content clause (and is a subordinate clause).
But is "Knowing that they were going to lose" also a subordinate clause? Can one subordinate clause contain another?
Knowing that they were going to lose, they went home.
I am studying content clauses (which some textbooks think are the same as complement clauses while others disagree) and believe "that they were going to lose" is a content clause (and is a subordinate clause).
But is "Knowing that they were going to lose" also a subordinate clause? Can one subordinate clause contain another?
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Anonymous believe "that they were going to lose" is a content clause (and is a subordinate clause). Right. Anonymous Can one subordinate clause contain another?
- Anonymous believe "that they were going to lose" is a content clause (and is a subordinate clause).
- Right.
- Anonymous Can one subordinate clause contain another?
- Yes.
- It happens all the time.
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Anonymousbelieve "that they were going to lose" is a content clause (and is a subordinate clause).Right.
AnonymousCan one subordinate clause contain another?Yes. It happens all the time.
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