Multi-Clause Sentencesfunction of the gap in the clause.
a. [The one] (3) [(1) RC that (2) I choose e (4)] will be rewarded. I
choose the one (5). Direct object (6).
b. The guy who brought the whoopie cushion will be disciplined.
c. The person you give it to will just throw it away.
d. Zelda bought the pink flamingo that Scott liked so much.
e. Wanda asked the man she considered the main suspect where he
had been on the night of the robbery.
f. They laugh best who laugh last.
- Using (a) as a model, combine the clauses in each of the following
pairs of clauses so that one member of each pair becomes a full relative
clause modifying a noun phrase in the other:
a. The avocados taste delicious. The avocados came from Califor-
nia. The avocados that came from California taste delicious. The
avocados that taste delicious came from California.
b. I am writing a term paper. The term paper is taking me forever.
c. The computer is acting up. My wife bought me the computer.
d. The book is an excellent source of information. I got this idea
from the book.
e. The appendix provides answers to the questions. The appendix is
at the end of the book. - If any of the full relative clauses you created in (2) can be reduced
(e.g., by whiz-deletion), then do so, e.g., The cheese which is from Wis-
consin.. ., The cheese from Wisconsin... - Each of the following sentences contains a relative clauses. Using (a)
as an example, separate each sentence into two clauses, analogous to
the pairs of clauses in Exercise (2):
a. The clause that includes all the subordinate clauses in a sentence
is the main clause. The clause is a main clause; The clause in-
cludes all the subordinate clauses in a sentence.
b. We discuss a few sentence types that allow the rearrangement of
phrases.
c. An absolute construction is a construction that is grammatically
set apart from the rest of the sentence.
d. The constructions that we have been examining are restrictive rel-
atives.
e. The sentences whose properties we discussed are quite compli-