Relative Clauses vs. Complement Clauses
hi .The answer of this question is very important to me: As you know a relative clause can come exactly after a noun phrase and modifies it. but there are some sentences such as :
- the idea [that politicians don’t always say the whole truth]
- the fact [that China is a dictatorship]
- the possibility [that the western world might loose the 'war on terrorism']
- the proof for the assumption [that democracies are morally superior
It is proved that these " that clauses " are noun phrase complement and are a kind of " noun clause" but why? we know "noun clauses" are a substitution for " noun phrases" and acts as subject ' object, etc but what is the role of noun clause in these sentences i wrote above? and why they are not adjective clause ( relative clause )?
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Anonymous there are some sentences such as : the idea [that politicians don’t always say the whole truth] ... These are all cases of "content clauses". They tell the content of the idea, the content of the fact, of the possibility, of the assumption.
- Anonymous there are some sentences such as : the idea [that politicians don’t always say the whole truth] ...
- These are all cases of "content clauses".
- They tell the content of the idea, the content of the fact, of the possibility, of the assumption.
- ), so you might think of them as appositives, just as 'Jupiter' in 'the planet Jupiter' is called an appositive.
- They are not relative clauses.
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Anonymousthere are some sentences such as : the idea [that politicians don’t always say the whole truth] ...
These are all cases of "content clauses". They tell the content of the idea, the content of the fact, of the possibility, of the assumption.
They are in fact restatements of the head word (idea, fact, etc.), so you might think of them a
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