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Just as a Nom can contain a Nom as a constituent, and a VP a VP, so Sentences (S) can contain ______ as constituents.
sentences
English (and every language) is an infinite language because it is ______.
recursive
Georgette said she burned the fritters. [1a] is a complex sentence: it contains a ______ structure as a constituent.
sentential
Contrast [1a] with the co-ordinate, compound sentence: He hired the acrobats and you hired the ______.
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This general phenomenon is called ______.
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Every clause has a lexical verb. So we can identify clauses in terms of their lexical verbs, referring in to the burn-clause, the say-clause and the ______-clause.
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The clause that is not subordinate to any other clause is referred to as the ______ clause.
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The lexical verb of the main clause is the ______ verb.
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In phrase markers, the main clause will be the highest ______.
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Although right-branching is preferred in the structure of English, not all clausal structures are ______-branching.
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To see this, identify the subordinate clause in and the two subordinate clauses in. Which is the main verb in and in .
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That is a marker of clausal subordination. It serves to introduce subordinate ______.
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When the complementiser introducing a subordinate clause is absent, think of it as having been ______.
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The explanation for this is that complementiser that and fronted auxiliaries occupy the same position, namely C: auxiliaries cannot be fronted to a position already occupied by a complementiser (whether the complementiser is overt or not).
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The big difference between a -clause and a that-clause is this. In Sarah is reported as asking something. So, without actually being used itself to ask a question, does allude to a question, and it does so by means of the subordinate clause [ those stupid sausages were ready yet].
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So, in addition to functioning (like that) as a marker of clausal subordination, whether indicates that the subordinate clause is an ______.
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