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Towel mango 169 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Is it possible for prepositional clause to use as subject?

Hello, I am wondering whether peoposition clause can be a subject.


Is it possible to write like this?

In the middle of sea is water

How can I use a prepositional clause for a subject?

  

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towel mango 169 How can I use prepositional clause for a subject? You can't do that. e.

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  • towel mango 169 How can I use prepositional clause for a subject?
  • You can't do that.
  • e.
  • prepositional clauses, can have their own subjects but those subjects cannot be a subject of the sentence (clause) which the prepositional clause is part of.
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towel mango 169How can I use prepositional clause for a subject?

You can't do that. Prepositional clauses are objects of the prepositions;they, i.e. prepositional clauses, can have their own subjects but those subjects cannot be a subject of the sentence (clause) which the prepositional clause is part of.

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I think you mean preposition phrase.

Yes, under restricted conditions, a preposition phrase (PP) can function as subject, notably those PPs that have a distribution like that of a noun phrase NP. Consider this pair:

[1] I spent over a year in Paris.

[2] Over a year was spent on the project.

In [1] the PP functions as object of "spend",

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