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Vsuresh Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Subordinate Clause

Hi

I have a question on the bolded portion of the sentence. I saw this sentence in this website.

https://www.ieltspodcast.com/ielts-vocabulary/grammatical-range-and-accuracy/

Children often play video games (independent clause), rather than (subordinating conjunction) conversing with their parents (dependent clause).

My question

Shouldn't a clause have a subject and a predicate?

Please give your views.

Suresh

  

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vsuresh Hi I have a question on the bolded portion of the sentence. I saw this sentence in this website. com/ielts-vocabulary/grammatical-range-and-accuracy / Children often play video games (independent clause), rather than (subordinating conjunction) conversing with their parents (dependent clause).

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  • vsuresh Hi I have a question on the bolded portion of the sentence.
  • I saw this sentence in this website.
  • com/ielts-vocabulary/grammatical-range-and-accuracy / Children often play video games (independent clause), rather than (subordinating conjunction) conversing with their parents (dependent clause).
  • Children [ often play video games rather than converse with their parents ] .
  • You have the analysis wrong on two counts: 1.
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vsuresh

Hi

I have a question on the bolded portion of the sentence. I saw this sentence in this website.

https://www.ieltspodcast.com/ielts-vocabulary/grammatical-range-and-accuracy /

Children often play video games (independe

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vsureshShouldn't a clause have a subject and a predicate?

A clause can have an implicit subject. In this case it's "children".

I notice they called 'rather than' a conjunction; I would have said it was a (compound) preposition. The Merriam-Webster dictionary has an entry for 'rather than' that calls it a preposition meaning 'instead of'.

CJ

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