SUBJECT OF A SENTENCE
Dear all
I would like to ask for your favor.
Could a complete sentence be a subject of a clause?
Here is a full sentence:
(1) That Rangers won both matches was a great achievement.
"That Rangers won both matches" is a complete sentence. It serve as subject of above sentence.
Is that (1) sentence structured correctly?
Many thanks in advance.
Top answer
I would expect That the Rangers won both matches was a great achievement . The subject is the underlined content clause, which is not a main clause but a type of subordinate clause, as marked by the subordinator that . It's a correct sentence, but not one you're likely to hear a native speaker actually say.
- I would expect That the Rangers won both matches was a great achievement .
- The subject is the underlined content clause, which is not a main clause but a type of subordinate clause, as marked by the subordinator that .
- It's a correct sentence, but not one you're likely to hear a native speaker actually say.
- You will occasionally come across this structure in writing, though.
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I would expect That the Rangers won both matches was a great achievement. The subject is the underlined content clause, which is not a main clause but a type of subordinate clause, as marked by the subordinator that.
It's a correct sentence, but not one you're likely to hear a native speaker actually say. You will occasionally come across this stru
0LE HANH 2383Could a complete sentence be a subject of a clause?
No. It's the other way around. Your sentence (below) is a case where a complete clause is the subject of a sentence.
That Rangers won both matches || was || a great achievement.
CJ
01) "That Rangers won both matches" is NOT a complete sentence. (it's a subordinate cluse.)
2) "Rangers won both matches" is a complete sentence.
Clive
0By the way, "Rangers" with no article is how they put it in the UK.
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