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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Help me analyse this sentence

e.g. The goal is empathy, which studies have shown declines in students with every year they spend in medical school.

My textbook tells me that 'declines' is used as a verb in the above sentence and 'studies have shown' would be an inserted clause so it can be ignored. But could 'declines' in the sentence above be a noun and would it still be grammatical? I'm not good at analysing English sentences but I just thought it could still make sense in some other way if 'declines' was used as a noun.
  

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The goal is empathy, which studies have shown declines in students with every year they spend in medical school. Anonymous 'studies have shown' would be an inserted clause so it can be ignored. Yes, that's right.

— AlpheccaStars

  • The goal is empathy, which studies have shown declines in students with every year they spend in medical school.
  • Anonymous 'studies have shown' would be an inserted clause so it can be ignored.
  • Yes, that's right.
  • So the sentence reads: The goal is empathy, which declines in students with every year they spend in medical school.
  • On first analysis, there are two clauses: 1) Main clause: The goal is empathy.
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The goal is empathy, which studies have shown declines in students with every year they spend in medical school.
Anonymous'studies have shown' would be an inserted clause so it can be ignored.
Yes, that's right. So the sentence reads:

The goal is empathy, which declines in students with every year they spend in medical school.

On first
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But my question is if 'declines' in the sentence can be seen as a noun in which case 'shown' would be the verb(I think. Really unsure though)
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AnonymousBut my question is if 'declines' in the sentence can be seen as a noun in which case 'shown' would be the verb
The goal is empathy, which (studies have shown) declines in students with every year they spend in medical school.

The subject in the underlined relative clause is which and th
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Anonymousn which case 'shown' would be the verb
No.

That is a separate (inserted) clause, which can be eliminated for the purposes of analysis of the sentence.

"studies have shown" (Subject: studies, verb: have shown)
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