Clauses?
Hi, everyone.
When you open google and you are lured into reading a full article on Star Wars and then you forget why you opened Google in the first place.
Could you tell me what types of clauses make up the above sentence?
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When [ you open Google and you are lured into reading a full article on Star Wars ] and [ then you forget why you opened Google in the first place ] . Modern grammar takes "when" to be a preposition, so the whole is a PP with "when" as head and the coordination of the two bracketed declarative content clauses as its complement. The PP would typically function as a temporal adjunct in clause structure.
- When [ you open Google and you are lured into reading a full article on Star Wars ] and [ then you forget why you opened Google in the first place ] .
- Modern grammar takes "when" to be a preposition, so the whole is a PP with "when" as head and the coordination of the two bracketed declarative content clauses as its complement.
- The PP would typically function as a temporal adjunct in clause structure.
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