LING 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Demonstrative, Relative Pronoun, Indirect Speech
15 Jan 2016
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Ling 2p10 lecture 11: complex sentences with a noun clause a linking verb that describes or modifies the subject: a phrase or clause that completes the meaning required by some other. Key point: how will we define compement": any non-obligatory argument of a verb, anything that comes after the verb to complete a sentence and/or a word or phrase following form. We can rank shift an independent clause down to dependent clause rank can take on a role typically performed by a word/phrase. If they occupy a np slot in a clause such as subject, object, or predicative in. Plus 2 kinds of non finite clauses ( to" clauses and ing" clauses) Wh-clauses" embedded questions (also include whether/if clauses) they are complement clauses. Main types of complement clauses: that clauses" basically embedded a noun like role, statements. Distinguishing 2 different uses of the term complement".
