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Look at the following sentences and say how many clauses each sentence contains.What the grammatical function of each clause is(e.g. main clause,comlpement clause,relative clause) What type each clause is(e.g. declarative,interrogative,imperative,explanative),What the constituents of each clause are,(e.g. subject,predicate,complement,adjunct).
1.The prisoners escaped.
2.The prisoners shot a guard.
3.The kind of incident,nobody could foresee.
4.The prisoners brutally attacked the guard who spotted them.
5.They don't yet know which prisoners planned the escape.

2007-03-02 20:22:50 · 4 answers · asked by mohit 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

4 answers

1. Single clause - complete sentence.

2. Single clause - complete sentence

3. Remove the comma - not correct there. 'The kind of incident nobody could forsee' is a clause itself - it's not a sentence, so further definition can't be determined. It contains another clause, one that statrts with a 'zero relative'. There is an understood "that" in the clause: The kind of incident (that) nobody could foresee. The '(that) noboby could foresee' is an essential adjectival clause, modifying 'incident'

4. "who spotted them' is an essential adjectival clause, modifying 'guard'.

5. 'which prisoners planned the escape' is a noun clause, acting as the direct object of 'know'.

2007-03-03 13:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 1 0

1/2/3. There is only one clause in each of these sentences. (3 is ungrammatical, should be 'nobody could foresee this kind of incident')

4. Two clauses 'the prisoners...... the guard' - main, rest subordinate clause

5, Two clauses. 'they don't yet know' main, rest, subordinate.

2007-03-02 22:56:32 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0 0

1.The prisoners escaped.
1 clause
subj verb

2.The prisoners shot a guard.
1 clause
subj v direct obj.

3.The kind of incident,nobody could foresee. 1 clause
(The order is flipped.)
The subject is Nobody
verb is COULD FORESEE
Direct Object is KIND.
(If you were diagramming this sentence, the prepositional phrase of incident modifies KIND)

4.The prisoners brutally attacked the guard who spotted them.

2 clauses:
The prisoners brutally attacked the guard (independent clause)
WHO SPOTTED THEM. Dependent clause
WHO relative pronoun that begins the dependent clause. Within the relative clause, the relative pronoun stands for the noun phrase it references in the main clause, in this case, guard.)
SPOTTED (verb in dependent clause)
Them (direct object)

5.They don't yet know which prisoners planned the escape.

They don't yet know
(Independent clause)
which prisoners planned the escape.
(dependent clause)
Which (begins the dependent clause)
prisoners: subject of dependent clause
planned: verb of dependent clause
escape: object of dependent clause

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