Timeline for Could a sentence with relative clause be simple sentence?
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| Nov 18, 2016 at 14:54 | comment | added | John Lawler | (1) not all subordinate clauses need a subordinating conjunction. Only adverb clauses need conjunctions; complement clauses and relative clauses don't need conjunctions. (2) This particular that (there are several kinds of all the little words; they're nuts and bolts, part of the grammar) is not a conjunction -- it's a different part of speech, called a complementizer, because it introduces Complement (noun) clauses. It doesn't do any joining; it just identifies the clause as one type of clause, optionally in most cases. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | John Lawler | Yes, but they're wordy because all the signs are left in or those who need them to navigate the sentence. "Wordiness" is in the ear of the addressee. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 11:02 | comment | added | iMerchant | "That" is a word that can be easily overused. Be wary of this seductive habit. Many times it can be taken out for a less wordy sentence. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 5:35 | answer | added | user140086 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 5:01 | comment | added | user140086 | Out of three examples, there is only one sentence that has a relative clause. Please edit your question title or delete two sentences that have no relative clause. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 4:58 | comment | added | user140086 | "They decided." What? "that it was a good idea" For what? "to invest..." | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 4:56 | comment | added | user140086 | What makes you think there is no conjunction? What is "that" doing there? | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 3:54 | history | edited | Mrt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2016 at 3:49 | comment | added | Mrt | @JohnLawler so do you think the part "that it was a good idea to invest in the company." is independent or dependent clause? | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 3:48 | comment | added | Mrt | @JohnLawler well I see what you mean, but this also makes me confused more. That is, as you know complex sentence technically means that a sentence that has at least one independent clause and one dependent clause and if there is a dependent clause , probably there needs a subordinating conjunction.When we look at the sentence, I cannot see subordinating conjunction. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 3:32 | comment | added | John Lawler | No, it is not a simple sentence. And that's not a relative clause, either. It's a complement clause, the direct object of decided. The fact that there are 3 clauses (because there are 3 verbs -- decided, was, and invest) means that it is a complex sentence. Most sentences are complex. Simple sentences are rare. | |
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