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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Parsing

Can you please parse these for me? The form and function of the 'whether...' is what confuses me.

a. I am going to tell the Teacher whether you like it or not.

b. I don't know whether you like me or not.

c. I don't know whether you like me or whether you do not like me.

The unreduced form c makes me wonder whether we say this is two noun clauses or one...

Thank you for your time
  

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Hi, buddy. You probably won't like my style of parsing, but it could be a start. a.

— Avangi

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  • You probably won't like my style of parsing, but it could be a start.
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Hi, buddy. You probably won't like my style of parsing, but it could be a start.

a. . . . . regardless of whether you like it or not.

b. I don't know if you like me or not.

c. as you say, it's the unreduced version of b.
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Hi, Avangi Emotion: big smile

That's a good point with the first one: It may be a noun clause (object of 'of'). Otherwise, I have no idea
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I wasn't sure what you were looking for.
I'm familiar with the concept mainly in the context of ambiguity, where one person assigns the modifiers differently than another, or takes a word as a different part of speech.
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