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Clause Structure

Found 12 items tagged with #Clause Structure.

The final post: a roadmap that ties the whole series into a study plan from zero to mastery.

Reduction transformation 6: restoring the hidden to and the hidden that that English leaves out.

Reduction transformation 4: the shrunken clause left behind after if, when, and although.

Spotlight one part of a sentence using cleft and emphasis structures such as It was John who.

Punctuation is not about pauses or breathing; it marks structure, and each mark does a specific grammatical job.

Comparing things in English with bigger, the biggest, and as tall as, and the rules behind each form.

Telling what someone said: how tenses, pronouns, and time words shift when speech becomes reported.

Joining equal pieces with and, but, and or, plus the parallelism and deletion that keep the result balanced.

The three positions an adverb can take in a sentence, and how placement shifts emphasis and meaning.

How adverbs and adverbial clauses add when, where, why, and how to the action of a sentence.

The word to does two completely different jobs, as a preposition and an infinitive marker, and how to tell them apart.

Find the seams in a long sentence: the signals that show where one clause ends and the next begins.