WRIT2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Synesis, Relative Pronoun, Independent Clause
Lecture 13 – 28/5/18 – Taking a stance on grammar
What’s ith that?
- That as a deterier: I do’t like THAT at
o If combined with a noun
- That as proou I do’t uderstad THAT at all
o If you a replae ith this
- That as a relative pronoun: This is the cat THAT mews relentlessly
o Try replacing with another relative pronoun (who, which)
- That as a conjunction: I think THAT cats have questionable social skills
o If you a oit/elide elisio: leae out that
- That as object of a relative clause: This is the house THAT Jack built
o If you a oit that
What’s the real differee etee oordiatig ad suordiatig ojutios?
- We a get rid of the oordiatig ojutio ad the sae thig is said do’t lose a lot of
meaning)
- Coordinating conjunctions are not a part of the clauses they connect
- Subordinating conjunctions cannot be separated from the clauses they connect – you can
invert the main and subordinate clause and achieve the same meaning
Nested complex sentences
- A dependent clause inside an independent clause
- [I think [that cats have questionable social skills]]
- [My mother ate the ie rea [I’d bought]]
- Remember: always look for FINITE VERBS first
The urious ase of of i ou phrases
- How do we know which noun is the head noun in complex noun phrases?
- The noun head is usually the noun that comes before the preposition
- A wide range of options is/are available
- A litany of problems has/have arisen
- Known as formal agreement
- But notional agreement says that the whole noun phrase is plural
Predeterminers/quantifiers
- “oeties the of phrase is’t so siple
o A lot of paper has gone missing (quantifier)
o A lot of papers have gone missing (quantifier)
- A bunch of bananas is turning brown (object)
- A bunch of students are waiting (quantifier)
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