Please help me analyze this sentence?
The horse tripped a series of equidistant wires as it ran, which in turn tripped the cameras' shutters.
Can somebody help me to explain:
What does "which" modify for? As I know, when we use adjective clause, the relative pronoun such as "who", which", " that" need to stay right behind the noun that it modifies for.
In the sentence above, the "which" stay behind "ran" which is a verb. That makes me don't understand.
Please correct me and teach me something about that. Thank you so much!
Top answer
The horse tripped a series of equidistant wires as it ran, which in turn tripped the cameras' shutters. The underlined element is a non-defining relative clause, the kind that does not modify nouns. Instead they simply refer to an antecedent which may be a noun, but can be a any word, phrase, or even a whole clause.
- The horse tripped a series of equidistant wires as it ran, which in turn tripped the cameras' shutters.
- The underlined element is a non-defining relative clause, the kind that does not modify nouns.
- Instead they simply refer to an antecedent which may be a noun, but can be a any word, phrase, or even a whole clause.
- “Which” is not a modifier – it is a relative pronoun that in your particular example has the whole preceding clause as antecedent.
- In the relative clause itself, “which” functions as subject.
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The horse tripped a series of equidistant wires as it ran, which in turn tripped the cameras' shutters.
The underlined element is a non-defining relative clause, the kind that does not modify nouns. Instead they simply refer to an antecedent which may be a noun, but can be a any word, phrase, or even a whole clause.
“Which” is not a modifier – it
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