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Boymeetsagirl Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Exclamatory clauses can be a cleft-clause??
It may be something academical, non-practical issues, going to convergence of grammartic problem.
In a situation where a clause started by "how" is used in a cleft-clause, which ones should we analyse the "how" clause as either exclamatory or interrogative?
Down below goes an example.
"It is surprising how brilliant she is."
i think that since the part of "it is surprising" is expressing an exclamation, the "how" clause need not to be an exclamatory clause, for it otherwise doubles meaning of exclamation.
Oh, I might have tergiversated much, feeling sorry that, not my intention.
I don't know very much about grammartical "jargon," doing my best tho.
Be fun, and just show your thinking for me.
In a situation where a clause started by "how" is used in a cleft-clause, which ones should we analyse the "how" clause as either exclamatory or interrogative?
Down below goes an example.
"It is surprising how brilliant she is."
i think that since the part of "it is surprising" is expressing an exclamation, the "how" clause need not to be an exclamatory clause, for it otherwise doubles meaning of exclamation.
Oh, I might have tergiversated much, feeling sorry that, not my intention.
I don't know very much about grammartical "jargon," doing my best tho.
Be fun, and just show your thinking for me.
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Hi, It may be something academical, non-practical issues, going to convergence of grammartic problem. In a situation where a clause started by "how" is used in a cleft-clause, which ones should we analyse the "how" clause as either exclamatory or interrogative? There is no interrogative in your example.
- Hi, It may be something academical, non-practical issues, going to convergence of grammartic problem.
- In a situation where a clause started by "how" is used in a cleft-clause, which ones should we analyse the "how" clause as either exclamatory or interrogative?
- There is no interrogative in your example.
- Nor, indeed, is there an exclamation, for the reasons I explain below.
- Down below goes an example.
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Hi,
It may be something academical, non-practical issues, going to convergence of grammartic problem.
In a situation where a clause started by "how" is used in a cleft-clause, which ones should we analyse the "how" clause as either exclamatory or interrogative? There is no interrogative in your example. Nor, indeed, is there an exclamation, for the reasons I explain below.
It may be something academical, non-practical issues, going to convergence of grammartic problem.
In a situation where a clause started by "how" is used in a cleft-clause, which ones should we analyse the "how" clause as either exclamatory or interrogative? There is no interrogative in your example. Nor, indeed, is there an exclamation, for the reasons I explain below.
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