Help labeling parts of sentence
I am working on a PowerPoint some English stuff, and I was looking back at this thread and you comments. One thing came up- You stated that complements are not relative clauses, as relative clauses are modifiers. However, you stated in the beginning of the thread that “whatever” is performing the role of complement. Can you explain? I think I’m missing something.
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Constructions that start with a fused relative word are not relative clauses. They are noun phrases. That means that, contrary to what I said earlier, you should be able to call 'whatever you want' a direct object.
- Constructions that start with a fused relative word are not relative clauses.
- They are noun phrases.
- That means that, contrary to what I said earlier, you should be able to call 'whatever you want' a direct object.
- Frankly, I have no idea exactly what CGEL calls that kind of structure in that position in a sentence.
- Rather than attempting to speculate further about it, I will have to recuse myself.
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Constructions that start with a fused relative word are not relative clauses. They are noun phrases.
That means that, contrary to what I said earlier, you should be able to call 'whatever you want' a direct object. Frankly, I have no idea exactly what CGEL calls that kind of structure in that position in a sentence. Rather than attempting to speculate further about it, I will have to
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