Tham khảo tài liệu 'the teacher’s grammar booksecond edition phần 6', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Sentence Raul knew that he should get a job. object Sentence Raul knew he should get a job. 141 142 CHAPTER 4 APPLYING KEY IDEAS Directions Analyze these sentences to check your understanding of the concepts in the last few sections. You may want to draw tree diagrams to show the grammatical relations. 1. Buggsy s goons had come from New Jersey. 2. Fritz realized that he could have forgotten the meeting. 3. Macarena liked Fritz even though she hated his apartment. 4. That Buggsy flirted with Macarena and Rita de Luna shocked the host of the party. 5. Buggsy s goons got nice tans after they arrived in . from the East Coast. 6. Macarena sometimes wondered whether she should settle down. 7. When she thought of her childhood in cold Chicago Mrs. DiMarco was happy that she lived in . 8. Mrs. DiMarco s nephew had lost his way after his parents died. 9. She knew that he ran with a dangerous crowd but was unsure that she could help him. 10. Although Fritz had had little success with women he thought that he was a ladykiller. 11. The fact that he was obnoxious troubled everyone. 12. He believed that he had bad luck. 13. Macarena s friends disliked Fritz immensely and because they were her friends they suggested that she find a better beau. 14. Fred was more kind but he brooded and often was downcast because he felt unappreciated. RELATIVE CLAUSES In many respects relative clauses RC are among the more interesting structures in English in part because of how they work as modifiers. They supply information to noun phrases but they also can function as sentence-level modifiers. When they do they modify the meaning of the independent clause rather than a syntactic component a curious arrangement. Another factor that makes relative clauses interesting is the relative pronoun RP . We have seen how other dependent clauses subordinate clauses and complement clauses are connected to an independent clause via a linking word a subordinating conjunction and a .
