Relative Clauses vs. Complement Clauses

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But "of spider" is a prepositional phrase which the function of it is adjective phrase complement. Right? So if a clause like what you gave as an example, come instead of that, acts exactly the same function not a "noun clause". Right?

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But "of spiders" is a prepositional phrase which the function of it is adjective phrase complement. Right? So if a clause like what you gave as an example, come instead of that, acts exactly the same function not a "noun clause". Right?

I think you're mixing the names of the constructions with the names of the functions (roles).

.................................. Construction ......................... Function
of spiders ........ Prepositional phrase ... Adjective phrase complement
that a spider ......... Noun clause ............ Adjective phrase complement
will bite him

of England ....... Prepositional phrase ........ Noun phrase complement
that there are ...... Noun clause ................... Noun phrase complement
... primes .

An alternate name for the noun clauses above is "content clauses".

CJ

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