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What continuing experience is showing us

What continuing experience is showing us is that we do not know enough about any one power source yet to be able to focus on that to the exclusion of others.

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Is What continuing experience is showing us a interrogative content clause and is the content clause in the predicate that we do not know enough about... an answer to that question in the sentence above?

Is enough an adjunct and is the PP about any one power source yet to be able to focus on that to the exclusion of others a complement of the verb know in the content clause?

  

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anonymous What continuing experience is showing us is that we do not know enough about any one power source yet to be able to focus on that to the exclusion of others. What X shows (US) is Y . ~ Y is complement of is.

  • anonymous What continuing experience is showing us is that we do not know enough about any one power source yet to be able to focus on that to the exclusion of others.
  • What X shows (US) is Y .
  • ~ Y is complement of is.
  • X shows Y .
  • ~ not the same as X is Y 'what' is a pronoun and functions as direct object of 'shows', and head of the underlined NP (fused relative).
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anonymousWhat continuing experience is showing us is that we do not know enough about any one power source yet to be able to focus on that to the exclusion of others.

What X shows (US) is Y. ~ Y is complement of

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anonymousIs What continuing experience is showing us a interrogative content clause and is the content clause in the predicate that we do not know enough about... an answer to that question in the sentence above?

Not exactly.

anonymousIs enough an adjunct and is the PP about any one power source yet to be able to focus on that to

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