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THE COMPLEX SENTENCE
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 480.
A COMPLEX SENTENCE is a sentence which consists of a principal clause and one or more subordinate clauses. The connection between clauses is called subordination.
Clauses can be connected syndetically (by means of connectors) or asyndetically.
  WAYS OF CONNECTION
| | | | | | | | SYNDETICALLY
I wish that you were not here.
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| | | | ASYNDETICALLY
I wish you were not here.
This is the house Jack built.
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| SYNDETICALLY
I wish that you were not here.
| ASYNDETICALLY
I wish you were not here.
This is the house Jack built.
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CON
| CONNECTIVES
(They are parts of the sentence)
| CONJUNCTIONS
(They are not parts of the sentence)
that, whether, if, as if, when, after, because, than, etc.
My proposal is that you should join us.
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| RELATIVE WORDS
(They introduce Attributive Relative clauses)
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| | | CONJUNCTIVE WORDS
(They introduce Nominal and Appositive clauses)
| | CONJUNCTIVE WORDS
(They introduce Nominal and Appositive clauses)
| RELATIVE WORDS
(They introduce Attributive Relative clauses)
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| CONJUNC-TIVE PRONOUNS
what, which, who, whose, whom, whoever, whatever
I know who will fail the exam.
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 | CONJUNC-TIVE ADVERBS
where, when, whence, how, why, wherever, whenever, whoever
This is wherehe lives.
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| | | RELATIVE ADVERBS
where, when, whence
It's the place where he lives.
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| | | RELATIVE PRONOUNS
that, which, who, whose, whose, whom, as
This is the student who failed the exam.
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| | CONJUNC-TIVE PRONOUNS
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