"Joanna Cherry, an SNP frontbench MP, said her party’s 35 MPs would support Benn’s “excellent” amendment, which rejects both May’s deal and a no-deal Brexit and gives parliament a say in what the government would do next."
(The Guardian.)
in what the government would do next - a prepositional phrase (a form); an adjunct (a function) where:
in - a preposition, the head of the PP phrase;
what the government would do next - a clause (an indirect question); a complement (in the PP) where:
what - a pronoun; a direct object [do what];
the - a determiner; the modifier in the NP [the government];
government - a noun; the subject in the clause [what the government would do next];
would - a modal verb (an auxiliary)
do - a predicator (the main verb);
next - an adverb (a form), an adjunct (a function [in the clause what the government would do next]).
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Is my analysis of the PP in what the government would do next acceptable?
Can what the government would do next be described as a clause embedded in the PP in what the government would do next?
Is [Benn’s “excellent” amendment] gives parliament a say a matrix clause in the independent (main) clause [Benn’s “excellent” amendment] gives parliament a say in what the government would do next?
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