Determining parts of speech
He then did a course in aerospace engineering at Purdue University in Indiana, sponsored by the United States Navy, which meant that Armstrong was obliged to serve as a naval pilot for three years.
Hi.
I wanted to clarify the grammatical role of distinguished parts.
I am fairly sure that the underlined part is named " adjective clause" but I have no idea what the highlighted part is called?
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[ He then did a course in aerospace engineering at Purdue University in Indiana ] , sponsored by the United States Navy , which meant that Armstrong was obliged to serve as a naval pilot for three years. The underlined element is a supplementary (non-restrictive/defining) relative clause. I'd avoid calling it an adjective clause, since 'adjective' is not a clause type but a word category whose members typically function as modifiers.
- [ He then did a course in aerospace engineering at Purdue University in Indiana ] , sponsored by the United States Navy , which meant that Armstrong was obliged to serve as a naval pilot for three years.
- The underlined element is a supplementary (non-restrictive/defining) relative clause.
- I'd avoid calling it an adjective clause, since 'adjective' is not a clause type but a word category whose members typically function as modifiers.
- In your example, the relative clause is a supplement, an additional and separate unit of information that is not a constituent in its own right, or part of the noun phrase "the United States Navy".
- Supplements are not modifiers; rather, they refer to a semantic anchor -- in your example the anchor is the bracketed main clause.
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[He then did a course in aerospace engineering at Purdue University in Indiana], sponsored by the United States Navy, which meant that Armstrong was obliged to serve as a naval pilot for three years.
The underlined element is a supplementary (non-restrictive/defining) relative clause. I'd avoid calling it an adjective clause, since 'adjective' is not
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