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More on nesting
Task A - our answer
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A (= Prepositional Clause [PCl]
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The student |
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was astonished |
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by the professor squirting his joke
bow tie at her
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This kind of embedded clause is called a Prepositional clause (PCl)
because it takes the place of a prepositional phrase (PP) in the adverbial
slot of the sentence (you could substitute 'by the professor's antics'
for 'by the professor squirting his bow tie at her' without altering the
overall structure of the sentence). This process of substitution is the
same grammatical test we used (with noun phrases and adverb phrases) to
establish noun clauses and adverbial clauses in the 'linking, listing
and nesting' page in this topic.
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