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Hsiaoyunh Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Noun Clause v.s. Adjective Clause
I've got a question and I don't know which one to choose.
On the way home, Gary told me something interesting ____ in his class.
(A) happened (B) that happened
Out of intuition, I think (A) is correct, but I don't know why (B) is wrong.
On the way home, Gary told me [ that something interesting happened in his class.] --> Noun Clause
On the way home, Gary told me something interesting [ that happened in his class. ] --> Adjective
Please help me out. Thank you in advance.
On the way home, Gary told me something interesting ____ in his class.
(A) happened (B) that happened
Out of intuition, I think (A) is correct, but I don't know why (B) is wrong.
On the way home, Gary told me [ that something interesting happened in his class.] --> Noun Clause
On the way home, Gary told me something interesting [ that happened in his class. ] --> Adjective
Please help me out. Thank you in advance.
Top answer
Congratulations! I think that you are 100% correct. I have read that hundreds of years ago, your first sentence would have been analyzed as: Gary told me that : something interesting had happened in class.
- Congratulations!
- I think that you are 100% correct.
- I have read that hundreds of years ago, your first sentence would have been analyzed as: Gary told me that : something interesting had happened in class.
- ("That" was considered a pronoun.
- "Something interesting had happened in class" was an appositive.
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Congratulations!
I think that you are 100% correct.
I have read that hundreds of years ago, your first sentence would have been analyzed as:
Gary told me that: something interesting had happened in class.
("That" was considered a pronoun. "Something interesting had happened in class" was an appositive. It explained the "that."
Over the years, the peo
I think that you are 100% correct.
I have read that hundreds of years ago, your first sentence would have been analyzed as:
Gary told me that: something interesting had happened in class.
("That" was considered a pronoun. "Something interesting had happened in class" was an appositive. It explained the "that."
Over the years, the peo
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