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Tenjing Posted 12 years ago
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How can we use noun clause with 'If' as a subject and as a incomplete predication? Could you show me some sentences? Thanks a lot.
  

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tenjing 'If' as a subject That is not possible. Here is a noun clause in an 'if' clause: If the old man bothers you , kick him . Here is a noun clause which completes a verb of incomplete predication: He was a very old man .

— Mister Micawber

  • tenjing 'If' as a subject That is not possible.
  • Here is a noun clause in an 'if' clause: If the old man bothers you , kick him .
  • Here is a noun clause which completes a verb of incomplete predication: He was a very old man .
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tenjing 'If' as a subject
That is not possible.

Here is a noun clause in an 'if' clause: If the old man bothers you, kick him.
Here is a noun clause which completes a verb of incomplete predication: He was a very old man.
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tenjingnoun clause with 'If' as a subject and as an incomplete predication?
I have no idea what a noun clause with "if" as a subject would be, let alone that this apparently impossible structure is also to act as an incomplete predication, whatever that is!

CJ
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Sorry about the confusion but this is what my grammar book says. Sentences like:
If I want to do it is.........
This is if I.....
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If I want to do it is not the point; the point is whether it must be done. The subject (of the first clause) is underlined.
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