Sentence examples for embedded clause from inspiring English sources

13b represents what is traditionally called super-raising, in which the matrix subject John moves from the deeply embedded clause and crosses an intervening subject which is closer to the matrix subject position.

In 15a, the embedded clause is infinitival and the embedded verb is unaccusative, with the matrix CP occurring as the only phase in the sentence.

But how does the embedded DP receive ABS since in the non-finite embedded clause, a defective T cannot assign an ABS case feature?

In these cases, the embedded clause carries the main point of the utterance, and the embedding attitude verb functions as an evidential marker, conveying the information about the source of the claim, or the reliability or probability of the claim.

In (17D), the embedded clause has the same form as 'John saw Bill'.

The shared object is therefore the controller for the embedded clause.

Their analysis, presented at the Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting in January, found no embedded clauses but did uncover "suggestive evidence" of recursion in a more obscure grammatical corner.

As he does so, he ­eases our movement through the sentence's embedded clauses with the strategically distributed alliterative pairs and triplets in the rhythmic cascade that so often characterizes his prose.

The existence of V3 embedded clauses is also discussed.

The topics of the embedded clauses cannot undergo further extraction.

The embedded clauses pave the pathways to nominalization.