English Grammar Questions
Q5: Identifying Adjectival and Attributive Apposition
Subordinate Clauses
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From B K - Iowa, USA "... my belief is your book should be rated "(very) advanced". It is quite a treat the book is nicely structured, and the topics are indeed presented logically, though many of them are way above the beginner-intermediate rating ..." "... although I have over 25 years of teaching, I couldn't understand the difference you suggest in example S2.1.2 point B, the adjectival versus the attributive apposition subordinate clause. Please explain that to me." First of all, there is a NOTE in example S2.1.2 saying: "The last two examples above are way too difficult to differentiate, due to the multiple-meanings the word 'that' has. They were presented only as a general information, not as representing any logic examples. The honest recommendation is, do not attempt to analyze them, unless you do understand adjectival clauses." Secondly, example S2.1.2 is a grammatical puzzle; therefore, we cannot disclose the way to solve it. You need to read and understand the entire LSEG book in order to solve that particular example. [CORRECTION: the mentioned NOTE-paragraph, and the accompanying mentioned examples, have been taken out from our last edition (ED3RV1103EN). It happens that relative clauses are, without doubt, the most difficult topic in English grammar, therefore we decided to explain everything in minute details, without any puzzle-thing. In Edition 3 of LSEG is presented the following general rule: 1. if the determined syntactic element is perfectly pre-determined in superior/main clause, then the following subordinate clause is an apposition; 2.if the determined syntactic element is insufficiently pre-determined in superior/main clause, then the following subordinate must be an attributive/adjectival clause. Note that appositions are a bit more complex, special forms of "common attributes".] | |||||||||||||||||||||
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