FINITE DEPENDENT CLAUSES

FINITE DEPENDENT CLAUSES

1. COMPLEMENT CLAUSES

   • controlled by a preceding verb,adjective, noun or preposition
     • used as subject, predicative or object in the main clause
       • can also be non-finite
         • I don't like playing baseball
         • i'm excited to go to the concert
         • it's a very nice film to watch
   • that-clauses
     • That this was his order
   • wh-clauses
     • What you say doesn't make any sense
   • within phrases as
     • complements of
       • a preposition
         • He was conscious of what they created
     • a noun
       • There is a feeling that this will be a problem
     • an adjective
       • He was aware that it was a lie

2. ADVERBIAL CLAUSES

   • used as adverbials in the main clause
     • normally optional
       • normally introduced by a subordinator
         • can also be non-finite
           • To clean the room you should use this product
           • I closed the door, scared by the noise
           • owing to my desease, i couldn't go to the party
   • can be placed
     • at the beginning of
       • the main clause
       • When you arrive, come and see me
     • in the middle of
       • the main clause
       • She tell me, before she left, that she would come again
     • at the end of
       • the main clause
         • I didn't knew I liked it until I tried it.

3. RELATIVE CLAUSES

   • postmodifiers in a noun phrase
     • used to expand the meaning and
       • specify the reference of the head noun
         • introduced by a relativizer that points back to
           • its antecedent, the head of the noun phrase
             • can also be non-finite
               • She is the woman who is living next to me
                 • Maria was the only one who was not excited about the party
               • She, who was the last person to understand it, is a British student
   • I met the girl who lives next to you

4. COMPARATIVE CLAUSES

   • complements in an adjective phrase or
     • an adverb phrase
       • they have a gradable word as a head
         • the comparative clause is introduced by a conjunction
           • than
             • for unequal comparison
               • She has more money than I do
           • as
             • for equal comparison
               • I knew that she wasn't as kind as she told us