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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Is This Relative Adverb Clause Or Relative Pronoun Clause?

There's somewhere I need little Lady Eris to go for me.


I was told

if a relative clause itself is a complete sentence, it is a relative pronoun clause.

if a relative clause itself is an incomplete sentence, it is a relative adverb clause.


To me, antecedent "somewhere" seems to be complement of go.

If so, I'm not sure whether or not the adjective clause is a complete sentence because of the verb "go".

Someone said "She went." is a complete sentence because "go" is an intransitive verb syntactically.

Someone said "She went." is an incomplete sentence because "go" needs an adverbial complement semantically i.e., go home/somewhere...

  

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anonymous There's somewhere I need little Lady Eris to go for me. anonymous I was told if a relative clause itself is a complete sentence, it is a relative pronoun clause. if a relative clause itself is an incomplete sentence, it is a relative adverb clause.

  • anonymous There's somewhere I need little Lady Eris to go for me.
  • anonymous I was told if a relative clause itself is a complete sentence, it is a relative pronoun clause.
  • if a relative clause itself is an incomplete sentence, it is a relative adverb clause.
  • I can't honestly say that I know what that even means.
  • In fact, it sounds backwards to me.
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anonymousThere's somewhere I need little Lady Eris to go for me.
anonymous

I was told

if a relative clause itself is a complete sentence, it is a relative pronoun clause.

if a relative clause itself is an incomplete sentence, it is a relative adverb clause.

I can't honestly say that I know what that eve

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