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Jasnkid Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
independent subordinate clause
Hi, teachers,
That’s what Aristotle figured out in 4th BC watching carpenters, shoemakers, blacksmiths, etc. Their work was not governed by systematically applying rules or following rigid procedures. The material they worked with were too irregular and each task posed new problems. A normal-edged ruler was of little use to the masons who were carving round columns from slabs of stone and needed to measure the circumference of the columns. Unless you bent the ruler. Which is exactly what masons did. They fashioned a flexible ruler out of lead, a forerunner of today’s tape measure. For Aristotle, knowing to bend the rule to fit the circumstance was exactly what practical wisdom was all about. –Practical wisdom by Barry Schwartz
Q1. I don’t know why the underlined subordinate clause is used absolutely.
Q2. Does the underlined ‘Which’ indicate some of the proceeding clause (which means bending the ruler)?
Thanks in advance.
That’s what Aristotle figured out in 4th BC watching carpenters, shoemakers, blacksmiths, etc. Their work was not governed by systematically applying rules or following rigid procedures. The material they worked with were too irregular and each task posed new problems. A normal-edged ruler was of little use to the masons who were carving round columns from slabs of stone and needed to measure the circumference of the columns. Unless you bent the ruler. Which is exactly what masons did. They fashioned a flexible ruler out of lead, a forerunner of today’s tape measure. For Aristotle, knowing to bend the rule to fit the circumstance was exactly what practical wisdom was all about. –Practical wisdom by Barry Schwartz
Q1. I don’t know why the underlined subordinate clause is used absolutely.
Q2. Does the underlined ‘Which’ indicate some of the proceeding clause (which means bending the ruler)?
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
jasnkid I don’t know why the underlined subordinate clause is used absolutely. It's just a stylistic technique that some authors like to use to provide variety in a long text. jasnkid Does the underlined ‘Which’ indicate some of the preceding clause (which means bending the ruler)?
- jasnkid I don’t know why the underlined subordinate clause is used absolutely.
- It's just a stylistic technique that some authors like to use to provide variety in a long text.
- jasnkid Does the underlined ‘Which’ indicate some of the preceding clause (which means bending the ruler)?
- Right.
- CJ
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jasnkidI don’t know why the underlined subordinate clause is used absolutely.It's just a stylistic technique that some authors like to use to provide variety in a long text.
jasnkidDoes the underlined ‘Which’ indicate some of the preceding clause (which means bending the ruler)?Right.
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