Timeline for confusion around what constitutes a complex sentence
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| Jun 13 at 17:40 | comment | added | Lambie | I’m voting to close this question because this question was originally on ELU, then migrated to ELL and now is here. I believe it may be a cross-posting but I can't check while I'm writing this. | |
| Jun 12 at 18:20 | comment | added | BillJ | Further, some non-finite clauses are not introduced by a subordinator, for example, I remember [telling you about my appointment], where the bracketed subordinate clause has no marker at all of subordination. | |
| Jun 12 at 18:13 | answer | added | BillJ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 12 at 15:11 | comment | added | BillJ | Note that subordinate clauses are not always introduced by a relative pronoun or a subordinator. Very often there is no overt marker of subordination. For example, in This is the book [he was looking at], the bracketed clause is marked as subordinate both by the absence of a relative word( or a subordinator), and by the absence of the understood object of "at". | |
| Jun 12 at 14:33 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 12 at 14:11 | comment | added | BillJ | My advice to you is to ignore the term 'complex sentence' (as well as 'simple' and 'compound'). These are not terms normally used by linguists or grammarians, so they have no place on this website. | |
| Jun 10 at 15:43 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Jun 9 at 20:22 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jun 9 at 20:22 | history | asked | user45524 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |