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Wholegrain Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

unrestrictive conjunctive clause of a restrictive clause???

Do they even exist?

Let me illustrate by an example:

I hate something which most people think a gentleman should be against, or (they think a gentleman) simply don't completely agree with the values thereof in public.

I think I just created something new... If not, then I really think this is useful in making more precise one's thought.
  

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I would take the first part of the sentence as follows:- I hate something - main clause; most people think - a parenthetical clause which has no grammatical function; and which a gentleman should be against - an adjectival clause qualifying the pronoun 'something'. The second part of the sentence needs recasting.

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  • I would take the first part of the sentence as follows:- I hate something - main clause; most people think - a parenthetical clause which has no grammatical function; and which a gentleman should be against - an adjectival clause qualifying the pronoun 'something'.
  • The second part of the sentence needs recasting.
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I would take the first part of the sentence as follows:-

I hate something - main clause;

most people think - a parenthetical clause which has no grammatical function; and

which a gentleman should be against - an adjectival clause qualifying the pronoun 'something'.

The second part of the sentence needs recasting.
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