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Moon7296 Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Complex relative clause
There was once a king who, seeking to impress his royal guests, commanded his servants to cpture monkeys from the forest and train them to dance.
Q) I found the underlined part weird considering the relative clause who that connects to the part "commanded his...."
How do you interpret it and what's the structure of it?
Q) I found the underlined part weird considering the relative clause who that connects to the part "commanded his...."
How do you interpret it and what's the structure of it?
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"There was once a king who, seeking to impress his royal guests , commanded his servants to capture monkeys from the forest and train them to dance" . It's OK. You've popped a supplementary adjunct into the relative clause; that's all.
- "There was once a king who, seeking to impress his royal guests , commanded his servants to capture monkeys from the forest and train them to dance" .
- It's OK.
- You've popped a supplementary adjunct into the relative clause; that's all.
- Supplements like this are rather like appendages - optional loosely attached elements, usually set apart by commas, as in your example.
- Supplements add non-essential information about something (called the 'anchor') in the clause; in this case the 'anchor' is the entire main clause.
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"There was once a king who, seeking to impress his royal guests, commanded his servants to capture monkeys from the forest and train them to dance".
It's OK. You've popped a supplementary adjunct into the relative clause; that's all. Supplements like this are rather like appendages - optional loosely attached elements, usually set apart by commas, as in your example. Supplem
It's OK. You've popped a supplementary adjunct into the relative clause; that's all. Supplements like this are rather like appendages - optional loosely attached elements, usually set apart by commas, as in your example. Supplem
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Thank you for your detailed answer.
Then can the adjunct be rephased as "...a king who, because he seeked to impress his royal guests, commended ...."?
Actually, that looks a little weird. Is there anyway that it can be rephrased?
Then can the adjunct be rephased as "...a king who, because he seeked to impress his royal guests, commended ...."?
Actually, that looks a little weird. Is there anyway that it can be rephrased?
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moon7296Then can the adjunct be rephased as "...a king who, because heYes, you could rephrase it like that with no real changeseekedsought to impress his royal guests, commanded ...."?Actually, that looks a little weird. Is there anyway that it can be rephrased?
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