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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Need help with nominal clauses

Can someone please identify this subordinate clauses for me:

1. There is no reason [why I should remember the details of it.]

I suppose this is a nominal clause, but I'm not sure which type.

2. It might be [that the girl had been struck by a car.]

Again nominal. Subject complement?
  

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Anonymous 1. ] I suppose this is a nominal clause, but I'm not sure which type. Apparently it's a relative clause, with reason as antecedent for the relative adverb why .

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  • Anonymous 1.
  • ] I suppose this is a nominal clause, but I'm not sure which type.
  • Apparently it's a relative clause, with reason as antecedent for the relative adverb why .
  • It's definitely not noun-like.
  • Anonymous 2.
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Anonymous1. There is no reason [why I should remember the details of it.] I suppose this is a nominal clause, but I'm not sure which type.
Apparently it's a relative clause, with reason as antecedent for the relative adverb why. It's definitely not noun-like.
Anonymous2. It might be [that the girl had been struck by
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Thank you very much.
How about this one: It was after I had been explaining to my wife [...] [that we walked around a corner]

Is it the same thing as the sceond sentence in previous post
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Anonymous It was after I had been explaining to my wife [...] [that we walked around a corner] Is it the same thing as the sceond sentence in previous post
No. This is a cleft sentence, and that we walked around a corner is a cleft relative clause with the after phrase as antecedent for the relativized element. Unlike ordinary non-parenthe
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