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KINDS OF KINDS OF CLAUSESCLAUSES
KINDS OF KINDS OF CLAUSESCLAUSES
RECOGNITION PRACTICE
IDENTIFYIDENTIFY
MAJOR OR MINOR CLAUSES
SINGLE INDEPENDENTDEPENDENT IN A PARATACTIC
ORHYPOTACTIC CLAUSE COMPLEX
FINITEOR
NON-FINITE
ELLIPTICALOR
EMBEDDED
EMBEDDEDPLUS
FUNCTION
William had just gone away to London, and his mother missed his money.
Two paratactically related clauses
There is no significant difference in the ideational content of these two utterances.
Single clause
What a nice plant!
MINOR CLAUSE
If you want to learn it, you must begin.
Hypotactic clause complex
Clause 1 dependent, Clause 2 independent
It is clear [[ that
there is always a
difference]].
Single clause, with Finite clause introduced by “that” as real postponed Subject. This is a case of anticipatory “it”
Mrs Morel talked again to Paul, who was helping her with her housework.
Hypotactic Clause Complex, with Clause 1 as main clause and Clause 2 as dependent clause of elaboration.
Do you enjoy [[making sounds]]?
Single clause with
embedded clause as C =
DO
At Christmas, people buy their kids more gaming, entertainment-based items.
Single clause
[[What is beautiful]] is also in some respects ugly.
Single clause with embedded finite clause as Subject
They took [[what they wanted]].
Single clause with
embedded clause as C
= DO
Throw it away or give it to your sister.
Paractactic clause complex
Not any more.
Elliptical (recoverable from
context)
It isn’t surprising [[that Aristotle appealed to such principles]].
Single clause with embedded “that finite clause” as Subject, real postponed Subject. The clause has anticipatory “it”