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30 Apr 2022, 04:11
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Hello, MissBong and PyjamaScientist. I think the original issue has been well explained above, but I wanted to discuss overarching frameworks for sentences so that you can get a better feel for their grammatical underpinnings. First, a clause, dependent or independent, can show up within a larger framework. Consider the beginning of a made-up sentence:
Running in a suit and oxfords so that he would not be late to work after his car broke down...
How shall we label the entire cluster of words? Is it a phrase, a dependent clause, or an independent clause? There are elements of all three, but importantly, the head of the sentence, running, governs the grammatical pathway of everything that follows, so the above is nothing more than a phrase, albeit a lengthy and complex one.
- Running... = phrase
- he would not be late = independent clause but so that he would not be late = dependent clause (i.e. you could not place a period at the end of just this clause and call it a sentence, barring dialogue)
- his car broke down = independent clause but after his car broke down = dependent clause (for the same reason as above)
Notice how the head of the phrase or clause triggers its identity. The sentence at hand is no different: with the result that they are restricted... is a phrase, despite containing a clause.
Perhaps this information will prove useful to you. Good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
