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Benjamin12 Posted 6 years ago
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When they are used properly, pyrethroids have been found to pose very little risk on to human health.

What is the grammatical name and function of the underlined expression please?

  

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Benjamin12 When they are used properly, pyrethroids have been found to pose very little risk on humans. What is the grammatical name and function of the underlined expression please? It's a subordinate clause (of time).

  • Benjamin12 When they are used properly, pyrethroids have been found to pose very little risk on humans.
  • What is the grammatical name and function of the underlined expression please?
  • It's a subordinate clause (of time).
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Benjamin12 When they are used properly, pyrethroids have been found to pose very little risk on humans.
What is the grammatical name and function of the underlined expression please?
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When they are used properly, pyrethroids have been found to pose very little risk to human health.

The analysis of the underlined expression is in fact quite problematic. One solution is to treat it as a preposition phrase, with the prep "when" as head and a subordinate content clause as complement.

An alternative analysis is to treat "when" as a preposition in a 'fus

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