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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Embedded Sentences

"How many embedded sentences are there in the following sentences?
1) Alice was just beginning to think to herself 'Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home? when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm.
I would hazard a guess at 5. But the tree element?

2) This time there could be no mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for he to carry it any farther."
  

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By ‘embedded sentences’ do you mean finite clauses or main clauses? Sentence 1) has problems, by the way: Alice was just beginning to think to herself 'Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home? ’ when it grunted agai n so violently t hat she looked down into its face in some alarm.

— RandomGuy

  • By ‘embedded sentences’ do you mean finite clauses or main clauses?
  • Sentence 1) has problems, by the way: Alice was just beginning to think to herself 'Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?
  • ’ when it grunted agai n so violently t hat she looked down into its face in some alarm.
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By ‘embedded sentences’ do you mean finite clauses or main clauses?

Sentence 1) has problems, by the way:

Alice was just beginning to think to herself 'Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?’ when it grunted again so violently that she looked down into its face in some
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Aspara GusAlice was just beginning to think to herself 'Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?” when it grunted again so violently that she looked down into its face in some alarm.
Actually, the quote, which I found online, is

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Anonymousembedded sentences
Embedding, here, is the inclusion a clause within another clause or a sentence. In traditional grammar it is called subordination.

Embedding may also mean "rankshifting" which includes sentences embedded into noun phrases: "The news that he died was shocking." (Here, the clause that he died is embedded into th
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CalifJimI don't know why you crossed out 'some'.
It just seemed oddly anticlimactic after so violently that... I mean, why just some alarm? Or does some mean “considerable”? If so it still sounds odd to me.
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Aspara Guswhy just some alarm?
You'll have to ask Reverend Dodgson about that. Emotion: smile

CJ
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