Identifying a clause
I hope you'll let me give your readers some advice on cell phone etiquette.
Could anyone analyze this sentence, please?
I think, you will let me give your readers some advice on cell phone etiquette is an object of hope, right?
If that's true, can we say you'll let met .....etiquette is a noun clause? If yes, shouldn't we use " whether/if or not?
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I hope you'll let me give your readers some advice on cell phone etiquette . No, the underlined element is not object, but a content clause functioning as complement of "hope". Some grammars call content clauses 'noun clauses' (or that clauses), but that is wrong since they don't always function like nouns.
- I hope you'll let me give your readers some advice on cell phone etiquette .
- No, the underlined element is not object, but a content clause functioning as complement of "hope".
- Some grammars call content clauses 'noun clauses' (or that clauses), but that is wrong since they don't always function like nouns.
- "Whether"/"if" would not be appropriate here.
- They both typically introduce subordinate interrogative clauses, and additionally "if" introduces conditional PPs.
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I hope you'll let me give your readers some advice on cell phone etiquette.
No, the underlined element is not object, but a content clause functioning as complement of "hope".
Some grammars call content clauses 'noun clauses' (or that clauses), but that is wrong since they don't always function like nouns.
"Whether"/"if
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