Sentence examples for sequence of clauses from inspiring English sources
And Maurice Richardson writes: "As you are being humorously pedantic about the BBC's sequence of clauses ('Although seriously ill, doctors say he is responding to treatment...'), shouldn't you also get your who and whom sorted out (as in 'the man whom she thought had looked just like Jesus') ?" Yes, I certainly should.
Those of the Penguin volumes which are most doctrinaire in their refusal to lay a hand on Proust's sentences, not presuming so much as to disturb the sequences of their clauses - Lydia Davis's The Way by Swann's, and John Sturrock's Sodom and Gomorrah - go well beyond that point.
They are realized congruently either by cohesive sequences of structurally unrelated clauses or by clause complexes of tactically related clauses.
Establishment clause, orestablishment-of-religion clause, clause in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from establishing a state religion.
He shows that the variations in the syntagmatic sequence of elements in the clause reflect different strategies by which languages manage metafunctional diversity in the clause.
I get lost in any sequence of steps prefaced by the clause "While your electric eyelash curler is heating …" And as for my hair, the only time a fashion-type magazine ever reviewed one of my shows they had a word for it.
Modification and tailoring of clauses.
But even depth-3 center-embedding of clauses (a clause interrupting a clause that itself interrupts a clause) is in practice extraordinarily hard to process.
Words per clause* Division of number of words by number of clauses.
The clause complexity of clauses represents the logical development of text.
