Gaurav2896
HI
AjiteshArun i have a doubt .
In Greek theology the supreme being was Esaugetu Emissee (Master of Breath)
, who dwelt in an upper realm in which the sky was the floor, and who had the power to give and to take away the breath of life.
Isn't the bold part is inessential modifier here and if we omit it for some time ,
In Greek theology the supreme being was Esaugetu Emissee, (inessential modifier),
and who had the power to give and to take away the breath of life is run on sentence?
Hi
Gaurav2896,
You've correctly identified the first relative clause as a non-essential modifier, but there's another non-essential relative clause (also introduced by
who) there as well. This is because the
who that's used in this sentence isn't a pronoun like in "Who are you?". Instead, both these
whos are relative pronouns (relative pronouns describe a noun before them).
Look at the sentence like this:
A.
... the supreme being was Esaugetu Emissee (Master of Breath), (a) who dwelt in an upper realm in which the sky was the floor, and (b) who had the power to give and to take away the breath of life.A run-on sentence is one that doesn't use a conjunction or punctuation mark between two independent clauses. In this sentence, however, we see only one independent clause,
the supreme being was Esaugetu Emissee (Master of Breath). Then we see two descriptive (dependent) clauses attached to that independent clause.