English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
Activity A9.4
58 I N T R O D U C T I O N Comments Activity 9.1: Only (2) is a major sentence. (4) is a subordinate clause – see A10. Your money is spent by the state would be a major sentence but the addition of ‘how’ shows that it is only a clause element, a fragment which could be recon structed as This article shows how your money is spent by the state. Activity A9.2: There is only one grammatical sentence, based on (1), which has the clause structure SVPs, where the predicative is a clause. (2), (3) and (4) are all frag ments; (2) and (3) are merely further predicative clauses based on (1), while (4) echoes the prepositional phase (beneath my skin) that is part of (3). The whole paragraph could be rewritten as: Here is how I came to love my mother, how I saw in her my own true nature, what was beneath my skin, inside my bones. Note that, although (2) and (3) begin with wh words, they are not interrogatives; they are subordinate clauses (see A10). The whole constitutes a major, multiple, complex sentence. See C9 for more practice on this. Activity A9.3: (1) consists of one multiple, compound sentence. (2) consists of one multiple, complex sentence. (3) has two simple sentences; the semicolon is equivalent to a (grammatical) sentence break. (4) consists of one simple sentence; the prepositional phrase carries the same basic meaning as one of the clauses in the other sentences. Activity A9.4: However is essentially a linking adverb, but here it used like a coordi nating conjunction (= but). This usage is quite common, in particular in business communication, but it is considered by many to be incorrect, an example of what is called a ‘runon’ sentence. Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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