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Big dream Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Object of elliptical preposition
Hi,
His failure at university was due to the fact that he was always absent.
Please, what is the function of the above noun clause?
What about the following?
I am sure he would succeed.
Is it an object of an elliptical preposition?
Thanks a lot.
His failure at university was due to the fact that he was always absent.
Please, what is the function of the above noun clause?
What about the following?
I am sure he would succeed.
Is it an object of an elliptical preposition?
Thanks a lot.
Top answer
big dream His failure at university was due to the fact that he was always absent. the function of the above noun clause? It's called a content clause because it tells us the contents of 'the fact'.
- big dream His failure at university was due to the fact that he was always absent.
- the function of the above noun clause?
- It's called a content clause because it tells us the contents of 'the fact'.
- That is, it tells us what the fact is.
- The fact is 'that he was always absent'.
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big dreamHis failure at university was due to the fact that he was always absent. ... the function of the above noun clause?It's called a content clause because it tells us the contents of 'the fact'. That is, it tells us what the fact is. The fact is 'that he was always absent'. These content clauses often occur after nouns that denote things that have i
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I asked about the function of the noun clause, but you just gave another name of the noun clause which is the content clause.
CalifJimIt's called a content clause because it tells us the contents of 'the fact'.
His failure at university was due to the fact that he was always absent.
Could you please explain the function?
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big dreamHis failure at university was due to the fact that he was always absent.Could you please explain the function? Isn't it an object of preposition "to"?'the fact' is an object of 'to'. The that-clause is in apposition to 'the fact'. Therefore, it too is, at least indirectly, an object of 'to'. Both the original term and the appositive expressi
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