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Zuotengdazuo Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Content clause?

I have marvelled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so, and, as she has often told me, there was in her also the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

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Hi. Is the underlined part a content clause?

Thank you.

  

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zuotengdazuo it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so I'd parse that clause like that: it - a subject (impersonal pronoun); seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so - predicate (verb phrase); seemed - predicator, head of the VP (linking verb); the most natural thing that I should go out to her so - complement (a noun phrase); ----------------------- thing - head of the noun phrase [with its determiner "the", and modifier "most natural"] (noun); that I should go out to her so - complement in the NP (content clause).

— Tkacka15

  • zuotengdazuo it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so I'd parse that clause like that: it - a subject (impersonal pronoun); seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so - predicate (verb phrase); seemed - predicator, head of the VP (linking verb); the most natural thing that I should go out to her so - complement (a noun phrase); ----------------------- thing - head of the noun phrase [with its determiner "the", and modifier "most natural"] (noun); that I should go out to her so - complement in the NP (content clause).
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zuotengdazuoit seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so

I'd parse that clause like that:

it - a subject (impersonal pronoun);

seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so - predicate (verb phrase);

seemed - predicator, head of the VP (linking verb);

the most natural t

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