Doubly Embedded Sentences
- Alice was ING [Alice just began TO (Alice thought to herself)] + Now what am I to do with this creature + when I get home + when it grunted again so violently + [PAST(she looked down into its face in some alarm)].
The passage has five main sentences (shown by +) and two doubly embedded sentences (shown by the brackets). One embedded sentence is transformed into an –ing structure. This passage is composed of many clauses forming a highly complex sentence. - Main clause: Alice was just beginning to think to herself - Independent clause set off as a quotation:
“Now what am I to do with this creature when (time clause) I get it home.” - Dependent clause introduced by “when”, adverbial clause, when it grunted again (time clause)
-Dependent clause preceded by the conjunction “so” and the conjunction or relative pronoun “that”, so violently (adjective clause), that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This sentence is a compound complex sentence. …show more content…
This passage has three embedded sentences (shown by +). This passage is composed of several clauses forming a complex sentence. Independent clause: This time there could be no mistake about it. Independent clause: It was neither more nor less than a
The passage has five main sentences (shown by +) and two doubly embedded sentences (shown by the brackets). One embedded sentence is transformed into an –ing structure. This passage is composed of many clauses forming a highly complex sentence. - Main clause: Alice was just beginning to think to herself - Independent clause set off as a quotation:
“Now what am I to do with this creature when (time clause) I get it home.” - Dependent clause introduced by “when”, adverbial clause, when it grunted again (time clause)
-Dependent clause preceded by the conjunction “so” and the conjunction or relative pronoun “that”, so violently (adjective clause), that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This sentence is a compound complex sentence. …show more content…
This passage has three embedded sentences (shown by +). This passage is composed of several clauses forming a complex sentence. Independent clause: This time there could be no mistake about it. Independent clause: It was neither more nor less than a